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Article #46458Re: Printing from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter
From: D. Robert Spexet II
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 17:37
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 17:37
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In article <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) writes: > I wonder if anybody knows whether it is possible to directly print >from a Macintosh computer (II, IIcx, IIci, or SE) to a NeXT laser printer. >I wanted to do this because the NeXT laser printer is so much more cheaper >than Apple's Laserwriter. Please let me know what hardware and software >are needed. If you mean sending the Macintosh PostScript output to the NeXT printer, the answer is no. The NeXT laser printer is cheaper partly because it is lack- ing a printer-based PostScript interpreter. (It doesn't need it since Dis- play PostScript inside the cube itself does the imaging.) However, the Macintosh requires the printer to do the imaging, which is why the Laser- Writers (except for the IISC) have built-in PostScript interpreters. Since the NeXT printer doesn't have the required PostScript interpreter, it won't be able to create the images the Mac sends to it. Sorry... -Dennis R. Spexet II UUCP: rutgers!umn-cs!ux.acs.umn.edu!spexet Internet: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu SnailMail: Post Office Box 14909, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414-0909 USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!spexet From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Printing from a Mac to a NeXt laserprinter Keywords: macintosh, NeXT laserprinter Message-ID: <1169@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 17 Feb 90 17:37:47 GMT References: <1990Feb17.212036.4311@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Lines: 22