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From: capmkt!brent@tis.llnl.gov (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Apple Laserwriter the same as Sun Laserwriter
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Date: 11 Jan 89 07:26:26 GMT
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> We recently acquired an Apple Laserwriter through various means (the
> majority of which were legal :-) which we would like to use with our
> Sun's.  The next question is, will Transcript work with it, or does
> Transcript search for some Sun Laserwriter proprietary prom or set of
> fonts first....

We have been using a pair of Apple "LaserWriter Plus" printers on our Suns
with TranScript for almost two years now, with absolutely no problems.
I'm pretty sure the "Sun LaserWriter" is just an Apple LaserWriter with a
Sun logo; it _might_ be an Apple LaserWriter Plus, but I'm certain there
are no PROM differences or anything like that between the Sun and
whichever Apple it is.

It's really a moot point, anyway, since TranScript is written by Adobe
(the folks who bring us PostScript) and should work just fine with _any_
PostScript printer (although LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus are by far
the most common).

Also be aware that Sun's 2.0 version of TranScript is pretty buggy (the
print filters do not deal at _all_ well with unexpected errors, and tend
to do nasty things like overflow internal error message buffers, randomly
scribbling on other state variables, thus causing the filters to hang),
but supposedly Sun started shipping a new version of TranScript last week
(although my call to 800-USA-4SUN hasn't been returned yet, so I don't
know for sure).

-Brent
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