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Article #13044Parallel ports and printers for SUNs?
From: John C Schultz
Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 02:18
Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 02:18
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I am trying to justify purchasing a Postscript(tm) 1200 by 600 DPI laser
printer from a company called Printware. While this printer has serial,
Centronics parallel, and Appletalk connections (it supposed selects any of
the three on a first-come first-served basis), the serial port is limited
to 9600 baud which means a .5 MB Postscript image takes (uh-h-h-h) about
500 seconds to print.
My question is has anyone had experience(s) with Centronics parallel ports
on a SUN 3? For obvious speed reasons I would like to use the parallel
port but using what hardware and software are the main questions?
Printware does not have a SUN software driver although maybe one for
Interleaf. In any case, I need to print arbitrary Postscript files (e.g.
images) and having an interface tied to a particular software package is
no good.
john c. schultz schultz@3M.Com ..!uiucuxc!mmm!schultz (612) 733-4047
3M Center, Bldg 518-1-1, St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
The opinions expressed herein are, as always, my own and not 3M's.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: schultz@mmm.serc.mmm.com (John C Schultz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Parallel ports and printers for SUNs? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1267@mmm.UUCP> Date: 19 May 89 02:18:18 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: 3M Engineering Systems & Technology Lab, St. Paul MN Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 303, message 12 of 12