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Re: ____ Laser writers & bad attitudes: why Apple = TOAST !!!

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From: Dave Sawyer
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <47tm7u$hs0@brtph500.bnr.ca>, diane.wilson@pobox.com wrote:

> In article <mkl.815925784@whoopi.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>, mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de
(Mario Klebsch DG1AM) writes:
> |> Why do you need a driver for it. WIndows comes with a PostScript
> |> driver and I am sure, it will work fine with this printer. In fact it
> |> worked fine with any postscript printer I tried.
> 
> Careful with this one.  Yes, Win95 has a postscript driver.  It does not
> have all the printer description files, etc., to support even the printers
> listed in the printer setup procedure.
> 
> I have a LW Select 360, which I'm driving as a IINTX because Apple doesn't
> yet have the Win95 support ready (or didn't last time I checked, a few weeks
> ago).  What I lose is 600dpi printing (from Windoze only), which is one of
> the two features I bought the printer for.  (The other feature is the dual
> connectivity, which Apple does support if you buy the right printer.)


Just FYI, the Win95 driver for the 360 (and the other newer Apple laser
printers) is available. You can get at any of Apple's support archives.
Here's one URL:

ftp://ftptoo.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/DOS &
Windows/Printing Software For Windows/Win95_LW_Printer_SW.exe

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From: dsawyer@edaccess.randomaccess.com (Dave Sawyer)
Subject: Re: ____ Laser writers & bad attitudes: why Apple = TOAST !!!
Date: 1995/11/09
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