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From: LACOMB@SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU (Lloyd La Comb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Apple laserwriter and Iris
Message-ID: <12360541109.18.LACOMB@Sierra.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Dec 87 17:20:13 GMT
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I'm interested in hooking up my Apple laserwriter to my Iris and I'm
trying to see if anyone out there has had an experience with a similar
setup.  My first question is about hooking the Iris up to a
laserwriter that already hooked to an Appletalk network.  SGI says
that it works fine and that all I need is a smart switch which I
thought would switch between either Appletalk or the Iris, but on the
back of my laserwriter is a switch that selects either Appletalk or
serial with some baud rate so I'm not too sure even a smart switch
will help that problem.  I'm also wondering what I'll get for the ~2K
or so for the software from SGI.  I know that the output will be in black
and white and thats fine for graphs and text but can I print grayscale 
images with any degree of defination?


					Thanks,
					Lloyd La Comb
					lacomb@sierra.stanford.edu
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