Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!taob
From: taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao)
Subject: Re: POSTSCRIPT
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 16:38:03 EDT
Message-ID: <56my41w162w@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
References: <1991Jun22.151814.13318@clark.edu>
Sender: _taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca

andy@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Andy Stein) writes:

> In-Reply-To: message from ISSLTC@NUSVM.BITNET
> 
>     Why can't the Apple IIGS just print directly to the PostScript printer,
> instead of having to save a PostScript file to a disk, and then
> transferring it to a Mac, which prints the file to the PostScript printer?
> Is there some inherent limitation in the GS, or did Apple deliberately
> cripple the GS so it would compete with the Mac, by not making a real
> PostScript LaserWriter driver?

    As far as I know, you _can_ hook up a LaserWriter to the GS via a 
LocalTalk cable and print.  Assuming of course that you have the necessary 
AppleTalk software installed on your startup disk.  But how many Apple IIGS 
owners do you know have a PostScript laser printer at home?  In fact, how 
many GS's out there are actually connected to a laser printer?  I just use 
the Macs at work and at school to print my GS stuff from home.  Really, a 
Mac Plus isn't good for much else anyway... ;-)