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Article #307Re: ..........Smart Printers : What the industry is keeping secret
From: Erik Ackerman
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <41mh85$s8c@news1.best.com>, miimura@best.com (Mike Iimura) wrote: >The REAL question is... does it work the same way when it's connected through >a network? Does it work the same with IPX? NetBios? TCP/IP? I have yet to >see a printer work the same on a network as is does on a bi-directional >parallel port. > >- Mike Iimura > miimura@best.com The answer, as usual, is yes and no. There are differences depending on how you connect to the printer. But these differences should be very nearly transparent to the user. They are basically changes in how the data gets sent to the printer. Each protocol (network or parallel) imposes some rules. To make data transfer identical across them would require breaking some rules (yes, there are mutually exclusive ones). With this in mind, the behavior of Lexmark's printers should be _nearly_ identical for all methods of connection. Erik Ackerman -- Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One of its legs are both the same.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f62f2,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gidf62f2,public X-Google-Thread: 104d8a,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gid104d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 10d752,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gid10d752,public X-Google-Thread: fe5c0,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfe5c0,public X-Google-Thread: 10db40,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gid10db40,public X-Google-Thread: fa939,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfa939,public X-Google-Thread: 10996c,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gid10996c,public X-Google-Thread: 114086,3f6dec8b088bffbe X-Google-Attributes: gid114086,public From: erik@lexmark.com (Erik Ackerman) Subject: Re: ..........Smart Printers : What the industry is keeping secret Date: 1995/08/28 Message-ID: <erik-2808950846160001@c21macpm8100.pfv.prtdev.lexmark.com> X-Deja-AN: 108999912 distribution: inet sender: usenet@lexmark.com (News Dude) x-disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark references: <intiaa-1708951832170001@slbri2p07.ozemail.com.au> <418hro$du3@horus.infinet.com> <41mh85$s8c@news1.best.com> organization: Analysts International Corporation newsgroups: comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.hp.misc,comp.sys.hp.hardware,biz.marketplace.computers.mac,comp.periphs.printers