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From: rcook@helios.nd.edu (Robert Kelley Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: LaserWriter II NT with Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.212259.10000@news.nd.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 21:22:59 GMT
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In article <14275@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) writes:
|> In article <277@jabaru.oz.au> 07790@tanus.oz.au (Brant Campbell) writes:
|> >This printer is very new and also uses the truetype technology that apple is
|> >supposed to be releasing in its next system - in postscript mode this printer
|> >is infact using the truetype technology which will certainly conflict with
|> >Windows and cause problems - you may have to wait for a driver Francis.
|> 
|> The LaserWriter II NT is a "very new printer?"  It has been available for
|> at least a couple of years.  We've been using it with Win 3.0 across
|> an ethernet using PCNFS since the first of the year. 
|> 
|> What have I missed here?
|> 


I believe Mr. Campbell was referring to Apples new Personal LaserWriter series,
not the LaserWriter II NT, which is a PostScript printer and supported fully
by the Windows PSCRIPT.DRV.  The Personal LaserWriters as far as I know can
not be attached to a PC (except maybe through a network) since they don't
have a parallel or serial connenctor on the printers.  The low end has just
an Appletalk connector and the high end ones have a SCSI connector as well.

The two lower end models also do not support PostScript, but do support TrueType
and QuickDraw.  Although TrueType will be supported by Windows 3.1.  QuickDraw
is soley an Apple product.

Robert Kelley Cook
U. of Notre Dame '91

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