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In article <DENNIS.90Mar8223400@yang.cpac.washington.edu> dennis@yang.cpac.washington.edu (Dennis Gentry) 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.
>>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-
>This is wrong.  I regularly print Mac postscript output on a
>cube's laser printer.

They key word here is "cube".  If you have a "cube" and a printer, you can
print Mac PostScript.  If you want to use the $2000 NeXT printer without
the $6500 "cube", you're SOL, because the NeXT printer does NOT know
PostScript.  It is the "cube" that knows PostScript.

The printer knows something much simpler than PostScript; it's called, "DMA".
Macintoshes, of course, don't know "DMA" even for their disk drives, much
less for their printers.
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