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Article #13685Re: SS1 --> Apple LaserWriter?
From: Rich Gopstein
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 14:46
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 14:46
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Before we bought Transcript (for the conversion routines), we set up a
print que to print postscript files directly to our LWII/NTX. The single
most useful thing I did when setting it up was to connect a spare VT220
(any asynch terminal will do) in parallel with the printer's SendData
pins. This allowed all printer errors to be easily visible -- which made
solving problems like "It blinked, but it didn't print" much easier.
The cable looks like this:
Printer VT220
2 ----------+-------------- 3
7 ------------+------------ 7
3 --------+ | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
2 3 7
Sun
This is probably a flagrant violation of the RS-232 spec, but it has
worked for several years on a couple of different Apple Laserwriter
printers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: soleil!gopstein@rutgers.edu (Rich Gopstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: SS1 --> Apple LaserWriter? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <4826@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 8 Feb 90 14:46:37 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 26 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v9n30 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 32, message 9