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In article <1992Nov20.034118.27433@merk.com>, sltheria@artsci.wustl.edu writes...
>Here's the situation:
> 
>I own a Mac SE/30 which I use here at college for writing papers, connecting to
>the mainframe and the occasional game (OK, I play games a lot..). Being a poor
>college student, I don't have my own printer and I hate treking to the lab to
>print out papers at 2 in the morning. My roommate, however, has a PC and an HP
>LaserJet III (I am jealous...). He said that he has been able to find programs
>that will covert PCL documents for printing on PostScript printer.
> 
>My question is: Is there a utility out there (to run on either a PC or my Mac)
>that will take a PostScript file that I create and make it printable on his HP
>LaserJet?
> 
>Please reply by mail, and I'll post a summary if need be....
> 
>Seth
> 
>-- 
>Seth Theriault		{:^)		     "Have a garlic bagel today!"
> 
>Internet: seth@merk.com		UUCP: ...uunet!merk!seth
>	  seth@works.uucp	      ...uunet!merk!works!seth


I'm pretty sure all you're gonna need is the right cable and a driver.  I've
seen Mac drivers for the Laserjet III on Applelink.  I contacted HP about 
drivers for a Laserjet II - they don't support it (at least not for the Macs),
but you can call them and they'll send you the driver for free or very cheap.
Then you can just connect the printer for he price of the cable, and you're
set.  I've never actually tried to connect a laserjet II, so I could be
wrong.  I don't have HP's number handy - look in the manual, or I think it's
in a file containing 800 numbers on sumex.  Email me back if you can't find it
and I'll see if I can dig it up.

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Jeff Clowser		    			     "A keyboard... how quaint"
JeffC@comb1.comb.umd.edu
Network Administrator, Macintosh Technical Support
Information Resources Group, Maryland Biotechnology Institute
University of Maryland

In article <20NOV199209374967@comb1.comb.umd.edu> jeffc@comb1.comb.umd.edu (Jeff Clowser; IRG) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.034118.27433@merk.com>, sltheria@artsci.wustl.edu writes...
>> 
>>My question is: Is there a utility out there (to run on either a PC or my Mac)
>>that will take a PostScript file that I create and make it printable on his HP
>>LaserJet?

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>
>I'm pretty sure all you're gonna need is the right cable and a driver.  I've
>seen Mac drivers for the Laserjet III on Applelink.  I contacted HP about 
>drivers for a Laserjet II - they don't support it (at least not for the Macs),
>but you can call them and they'll send you the driver for free or very cheap.
>Then you can just connect the printer for he price of the cable, and you're
>set.  I've never actually tried to connect a laserjet II, so I could be
>wrong.  I don't have HP's number handy - look in the manual, or I think it's
>in a file containing 800 numbers on sumex.  Email me back if you can't find it
>and I'll see if I can dig it up.
>
>===============================================================================
>Jeff Clowser		    			     "A keyboard... how quaint"


Jeff (and all others interested),

I don't think Seth wants to hook up the laserjet directly to
the SE/30. But those of you who want to, check out my review in
sumex: /info-mac/report/mac-laser-jet-up-rev-11.txt.

Also, quite definitely, HP does *not* provide drivers for the
LaserJet series II.

Cheers!

-rich
rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu

|> In article <1992Nov20.034118.27433@merk.com>, sltheria@artsci.wustl.edu writes...

|> >My question is: Is there a utility out there (to run on either a PC or my Mac)
|> >that will take a PostScript file that I create and make it printable on his HP
|> >LaserJet?
Hello!

Get GhostScript for DOS from wuarchive.wustl.edu and print the PS-file 
directly to the HPLJ. I think the HP needs to have at least 1.5 MB for
a full-page 300dpi printout, thoungh. 

Hope this helps,

Ralf

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Ralf Grohmann
Micro-BIT, Rechenzentrum Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
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