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Article #10088Re: Apple Laserwriter the same as Sun Laserwriter
From: Christopher Lott
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1989 00:38
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1989 00:38
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Hi,
About 2 years or so ago, I hooked an Apple LW to a Sun 2/50, using the
Adobe Transcript package, and it worked _great_. When I asked Sun Support
about it (don't remember why I was calling, hm) they said that their
laserWriter was just the Apple laserWriter with a new logo.
It's a straight postScript printer, no matter the logo on the outside.
Transcript just puts out straight ps code, so it should not be a problem.
Some folks have posted instructions for hooking a sun to a lw; here's what
I have: [[ The original message is in volume 5 number 60. I have removed
all but the essentials. --wnl ]]
> From: parns!harker@sun.UUCP (Robert Harker, all around good guy)
> Subject: Re: sun laserwriter help
>
> ...do the install on
> the server as if the LaserWriter was locally installed on the server.
> Then when the install is complete you copy the printcap file generated for
> the server to the client with the LaserWriter attached, deleting any bogus
> entries for other printers. On the client you also link the device that
> the Laserwriter is attached to to /dev/lw... Make sure that the server
> has an entry for the
> LaserWriter that is remote printer entry, not a local printer entry, ie:
>
> lw|ps|postscript|PostScript:\
> :lp=:\
> :rm=client:\
> :rp=lw:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/lw:
cml
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: cml@cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Lott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Apple Laserwriter the same as Sun Laserwriter Message-ID: <8812301530.AA03413@brachiosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 7 Jan 89 00:38:31 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA Lines: 36 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 88 10:30:57 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 90, message 8 of 9