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From: keith@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs ROMS
Message-ID: <6443@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 20:20:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 20:20:32 1987
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Reply-To: keith@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <3997@ecsvax.UUCP> ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher) writes:
>
>Keith,
>
>Welcome to the net!  I've got a question for you.  I use a  IIgs on an Apple-
>Talk network with Macs.  Whenever I print to the LaserWriter, if a Mac has 
>printed first, I have to turn off the LaserWriter and recycle it to print.
>Is there a newer version of LaserPrep that can coexist with the Mac?  The 
>problem does not occur if the Macs are running Pagemaker 2.0 with the Aldus
>LaserWriter drivers instead of Apples'.  Any fixes for this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Rick Fincher
>ranger@ecsvax

Not yet. The LaserPrep file that the Apple IIGS is essentially the same as the
3.3 LaserPrep file for the Mac. Therefore, your Macs would have to use the
same version.

This is certainly not the ideal situation that Apple wants to be in. Our
intention is to have the Apple IIGS independant of any Prep file whatsoever.
That way, the Mac can go about and initialize the laserwriter with whatever
version it wants, and it won't affect the GS. However, with all the 3rd party
developers clamoring for printing drivers, we had to give them something. The
fastest thing to do was to leverage off of the Mac LaserPrep.

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Keith Rollin                                               amdahl\
Sales Technical Support                               pyramid!sun !apple!keith
Apple Computer                                             decwrl/

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