Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!yorkohm!nigelm
From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Can other printers be driven by the NeXT PS interpreter
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.120423.5893@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Apr 91 12:04:23 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
Lines: 28

As I understand it, the NeXT printer is a dumb printer that has all
the hard work of converting a PS description into a bit image done
by the NeXT machine itself.

In theory there seems to be no reason why any bit-graphics printer
couldn't be treated in just the same way.

So has anyone done this?

In particular has anyone persuaded an old HP Laser printer to hand
from a NeXTslab???

[ My reading of the license does not see any problems with doing
this as long as the printer is less than 900 dpi resolution - Oh if
only I had a printer of that resolution....]

	Nigel.

I will sumarise any email replies I get in about 10 days.  I think
this is probably net discussion material though - if I can find it
in the huge volume of comp.sys.next.


-- 
# Nigel Metheringham         #  EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk #
# System Administrator       #  Phone: +44 904 432374        #
# Department of Electronics  #  Fax:   +44 904 432335        #
#     University of York, Heslington, York, UK, YO1 5DD      #