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From: mbrown@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Brown)
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Subject: Re: Hooking up a Laserwriter to a PC or a 3B2?
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 10:38:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 10:38:32 1987
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I am not sure about the hardware to hook up a Laserwriter (I think that
it is an RS232 interface), but the Laserwriter is driven by postscript,
i.e. the final driver to produce the pixel pattern is a set of ROM
postscript routines.  This means that you either need to be running
postscript, or have a program that will translate the output from your
text processor to postscript.  I will be posting a summary of what is
available to do this in comp.text next week.

NOTE: I am not a expert on the Laserwriter, so if there is another way
to set it up, post it.  The only reason I know about the software is
that I am in the process of hooking up a Laserwriter to a System V Unix
machine.
-- 
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