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From: maul@asic.nsc.com (Rob Maul maul@asic.nsc.com (408) 721-7637)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing  from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter
Summary: How about spooling from a Mac to a NeXT server?
Keywords: macintosh, NeXT laserprinter
Message-ID: <123@cavanasic.nsc.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 21:59:37 GMT
References: <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu>, spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
> In article <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) writes:
> >	I wonder if anybody knows  whether it is possible to directly print 
> >from a Macintosh computer  (II, IIcx,  IIci, or SE) to a NeXT laser printer.
> >I wanted to do  this because  the NeXT laser printer is so much more cheaper
> >than Apple's Laserwriter.  Please let me know what hardware and software
> >are needed.  
> 
> If you mean sending the Macintosh PostScript output to the NeXT printer, the
> answer is no.  The NeXT laser printer is cheaper partly because it is lack-
> ing a printer-based PostScript interpreter...

Since I don't have a LaserWriter I can't extract the PostScript using the
Click-OK command-f stuff.  Is this right?  Does one need to purchase a
LaserWriter just to extract the postscript files?  My NeXT laser printer is
400 DPI, so I would not want to use a LaserWriter anyway.

I want to extract the PostScript and move it to my NeXT machine and print
it from there.  I already bought the MacLink software from DataViz to move
the file but, it would be even better if a daemon would run on the NeXT
waiting for spooled PostScript files.  Maybe a daemon that imitated the
LaserWriter protocol would do the trick.  This way additional software
for the Mac would not be needed.

Any Ideas?  Rob Maul maul@asic.nsc.com