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In article <9103132036.AA25596@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> wcs@erebus.att.com (William
Clare Stewart) writes:
>I'm trying to find out how to connect big laser printers (50-100ppm)
>to normal computers, in particular to 386/486 boxes

If the big printers which you are talking about are Xerox lasers you can
connect a PC two ways:

	a) Centronics parallel thru a 'SPUR' box to the printer.
	b) Via a PC bus board directly to the 3211 controller on the printer
		(called a 'DataWare' or Seqoyah board)

both options are available from your local Xerox PS Rep.

I have customers using both methods at rated speed.  It depends what you are
sending down to the printer. If you are sending line mode data with lots of
fonts changes and forms invocations .... rated speed since the printers are
intelligent and most of the processing occurs at the other end of the
transmission. If you are sending lots of bitmap graphics .... very slow unless
you are requesting multiple copies.

Hope this helps.

-Richard
RWerezak@TORHO.Xerox.COM
(416)972-7040