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From: perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Can Macs Print to Unix Printers?
Message-ID: <1991May27.001901.27417@PacBell.COM>
Date: 27 May 91 00:19:01 GMT
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In article <1991May22.170047.16299@lgc.com> chris@lgc.com (Chris Martin) writes:
>
>I'm in some need of some net.wisdom.
Can't help here.
>
>I have looked at CAP.  At first look, it appears as if it might work
>but lwsrv seems to mandate that it be printing to LaserWriter....
>...Does *anyone* print from macs to printers attached to unix machines?
>I'd hate to have to move the printer onto the mac network.

Try isrv and iwpr.  They aren't realy conpleted products but they
are functional and demonstrate the basic code you need to A) have
your UNIX system look like a printer on the AppleTalk, and B) send
a spooled job to an AppleTalk printer -- though it seems you
don't need this part.  BTW, isrv and lwsrv are the same program,
lwsrv.c.

We use "lp" and have an interface script that look to see if the
file to be printed is PostScript or not, if it is, it gets
printed as is, otherwise we run it through a PostScript
conversion filter (transcript, lpscript, psflt, etc.) first.


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