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From: mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NetPrint, Ether to LaserWriter?
Summary: CAP 6.0 or QMS printers
Keywords: Mac UNIX print
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.141702.15095@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 19:16:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.171819.2629@jhereg.osa.com>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
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In article <1991Jun5.171819.2629@jhereg.osa.com> andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh) writes:
>
>	I am looking for something that will allow Unix machines on an
>ethernet to send Postscript to be printed by a LaserWriter. The printer
>will be connected to Appletalk.

I believe that the standard solution is to connect the LaserWriter to the
Sun and run CAP 6.0 on the Sun.  The printer would be connected using
a serial link.  As the software is ftp'able the cost is entirely in
sysadmin time.

Another solution is to buy a QMS 410 or 810 printer which supports
simultaneous connections via AppleTalk, parallel, and serial ports and
switches between PostScript/LJ II emulation on a file-by-file basis.  The
410 seems to have some trouble with its AppleTalk port but not the 810.

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