Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!w3vh!rolfe
From: rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Printing on MAC Ethernet lans
Message-ID: <314@w3vh.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 17:49:45 GMT
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Organization: W3VH Packet Radio Gateway, Great Barrington, MA
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Keywords: ethernet mac appletalk

Can anyone help sort out what options I have for printing services on
a small network of MAC IIs on it's own Ethernet, using Ethertalk hardware
and software?  As I understand it, even Apple's new laser printers have
only an Appletalk (Localtalk?) interface.  The thought of using a Kinetics
box "backwards" just to get print spooling capability seems like a horrible
kludge, not to mention expensive.  Can it be that Apple has thought this
through so badly that there is *no* approved way to run network printing
services on an Ethernet-based MAC network?

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