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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Mac -> NeXT printer
Summary: Do bitmaps in memory
Message-ID: <6254@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 18:37:26 GMT
References: <20218@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <38655@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <38655@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> tsui@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Yufeng Tsui) writes:

>   I am planning to network several NeXTs and MacSE/30s and I am just
> wondering if it is possible for the Mac to take advantage of the
> 400dpi resolution of the NeXT printer.  I already have a IINT hooked 
> up to the appletalk network for the printing and I use Laserwriter6.0.
> What I am goign to do is install CAP on a NeXT and run NeXT as a printer
> server.

I don't think there is an easy solution.  I would do the same thing the
non-Postscript Laserwriter driver does -- image the picture in memory then
transfer the bitmap to the Next printer.  You would have to find out if the
NEXT printer drive stuff compresses the data, and do the same compression
in the Mac driver.

Note: writing a print driver is a non-trivial task, and may well be completely
invalidated when system 7 comes out...
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