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From: neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The Printer Question
Keywords: non-laser low-cost printer support
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.002915.12565@zardoz.cpd.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:29:15 GMT
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In article <1431@actisb.UUCP> federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes:
>The main problem seems to be interfacing the printer to the NeXT,
>because we don't have any paralell ports in our machines, and almost
>all printers use those. ........... The problem of slow transmission
>of bitmaps remains, however. I don't know what's the upper bound for
>serial speed on the NeXT, but whatever it is, it's certainly too slow
>for the job (we're speaking 360 DPI bitmaps here).

At the risk of being commercial 8-), we sell a SCSI based centronics
parallel interface that works on the NeXT.
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