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From: naftoli@aecom.YU.EDU (Robert N. Berlinger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: IBM PC and the Apple LocalTalk interface card
Keywords: LocalTalk, network printing
Message-ID: <2223@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 89 15:03:05 GMT
References: <2295@cit5.cit.oz>
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
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In article <2295@cit5.cit.oz>, prf@cit5.cit.oz (Paul Freeman) writes:
> I have an Apple LocalTalk interface card in a IBM PC/XT compatible. 
> This is connected into a network of Macintoshes and a Laserwriter II NT.
> What I want to do is print directly to the Laserwriter from an application
> running on the IBM (the application can produce Postscript) using Localtalk. 
> At present, the only way to do this is for the application to print to a disc
> file.  Then you quit the application and using the Apple utility program that
> comes with the card, print to the Laserwriter.

Get AppleShare PC.  Even if you don't have an AppleShare server, the software
allows you to print directly from an application to a LaserWriter or
ImageWriter.  It does this by redirecting the LPT? port and spooling
the job over LocalTalk to the printer.  Any application that can print
on a PostScript compatible or Epson LQ2500 printer is able to print.
I've used WordPerfect 5.0, MS Word 4.0, and WordStar 5.0 and others
without problems.
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