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Article #28354Hooking up an HP 7585B plotter to a Mac
From: David Vangerov
Date: Fri, 20 May 1988 03:20
Date: Fri, 20 May 1988 03:20
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I'm told that this is possible, but I haven't been able to find out how to do this. We have an HP 7585B plotter (otherwise known as a Big-Bertha plotter) in the lab that I work. In this same lab we also have a bunch of micro-computers (IBM's and Mac's). We have had no trouble hooking up the IBM's to the plotter. What I want to do is hookup the Macs (or at least one of them, probably the Mac II) to the plotter as well. Now I know that this can be done since I've seen it be done and heard of it as well. What I want to know is how do I do this? According to HP they don't have a generic driver for the plotter and that software you use should come with a driver for it. So what I really want to know is what software packages out there support a plotter, specifically the HP 7585B. I want some software like MacDraw or MacDraft (or something along those lines). Mail me your replies and I'll summarize for the net if there is enough interest in this... Thanks a bunch... +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Vangerov | | Just your average Theater Arts major with a weird thing for computers | | fiatlux@ucscc.BITNET || fiatlux@ucscc.ucsc.EDU || ...!ucbvax!ucscc!fiatlux | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!saturn!ucscc.UCSC.EDU!fiatlux From: fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Hooking up an HP 7585B plotter to a Mac Keywords: plotter, mac, software, drivers Message-ID: <3356@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 20 May 88 03:20:19 GMT Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov) Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; CATS Lines: 27