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From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing  from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter
Keywords: macintosh, NeXT laserprinter
Message-ID: <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT
References: <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
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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.  (It doesn't need it since Dis-
play PostScript inside the cube itself does the imaging.)  However, the
Macintosh requires the printer to do the imaging, which is why the Laser-
Writers (except for the IISC) have built-in PostScript interpreters.  Since
the NeXT printer doesn't have the required PostScript interpreter, it won't
be able to create the images the Mac sends to it.

Sorry...

-Dennis R. Spexet II
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