Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:50224 comp.sys.next:5362 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!deimos!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Printing from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter Message-ID: <1990Mar9.161055.1537@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Mar 90 16:10:55 GMT References: <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 19 In article dennis@yang.cpac.washington.edu (Dennis Gentry) 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. >>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- >This is wrong. I regularly print Mac postscript output on a >cube's laser printer. They key word here is "cube". If you have a "cube" and a printer, you can print Mac PostScript. If you want to use the $2000 NeXT printer without the $6500 "cube", you're SOL, because the NeXT printer does NOT know PostScript. It is the "cube" that knows PostScript. The printer knows something much simpler than PostScript; it's called, "DMA". Macintoshes, of course, don't know "DMA" even for their disk drives, much less for their printers. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner