Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:50199 comp.sys.next:5359 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!milton!milton.acs.washington.edu!dennis From: dennis@yang.cpac.washington.edu (Dennis Gentry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Printing from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 90 06:34:00 GMT References: <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@milton.acs.washington.edu Organization: Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, U of Wash, Seattle Lines: 30 In-reply-to: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu's message of 17 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Date: 17 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT 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- [incorrect hypothesis about NeXT laser printer deleted] This is wrong. I regularly print Mac postscript output on a cube's laser printer. To produce a postscript file on the Mac, press command-F (or command-K to avoid the PS header) just after you click "OK" in a print dialog. Move the file (probably named PostScript0) to the cube (Kermit, ftp, zmodem, daynafile, or whatever). Print it using "lpr". If this error has already been corrected in the mac group, I apologize for wasting your time. It had apparently passed without comment in comp.sys.next. Dennis Gentry (dennis@cpac.washington.edu)