Berkeley spooling to Centronics parallel printers

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1 total messages Started by Randy Frank Tue, 30 Apr 1991 20:04

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Author: Randy Frank
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 20:04

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Does anyone of a commercial or public domain implementation of a Berkeley
print spooler server (lpd) on top of tcp/ip for a PC.

The application area we're interested in is making low cost personal
computers with ethernet cards act as network interfaces for printers
such as the new HP Laserjet IIIsi, which only have parallel (and serial)
interfaces.

Given we have old pc's with enet cards coming out of our ears, these would
be ideal to use as network controllers for these printers.  Eventually
HP will offer the internal ethernet option for these printers with
LPR/TCP/IP support built-in, but for now using a basic and cheap pc looks
like the best option.

Any pointers or leads would be appreciated.

Randy Frank

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Randy Frank
Computer Aided Engineering Network
University of Michigan
229 Chrysler Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109

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