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In article <5436@louie.udel.EDU> matthews@udel.EDU (John Matthews) writes:
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>Can someone out there tell me if there exists any such software that
>will allow a MAC or MAC II to spool postscript printer requests to
>a UNIX line printer daemon.  The scenerio is that we have a data products
>printer connected to a SUN that we use heavily in CAD.  We don't want
>to move the laser printer onto appletalk without real good reason.
>Even though appletalk is ~234kbs and  appears to be faster than a 19.2kbaud
>connection, the processor gets so busy it has to use flow control anyway.
>We would like to rely more on the ethernet and not have to worry about
>appletalk at all.  Please respond to me directly as I do not read this
>newsgroup regularly.  We are using the TOPS software/NCSA Telnet with a
>Kinetics fastpath box.

What you probably need is CAP from Columbia University, it will let you
do one of two things:

	- let the Sun print to a laser printer on LocalTalk (this is really
	  not a big deal, the data rate to a laser printer is very low
	  imaging takes much longer, unless you are printing lots of bitmaps).

	- lets you run a spooler on the Sun into which you can drop Mac
	  programs to be printed

The best part is that the source is FREE. But of course you have to support
yourself.

	Paul

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