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In article <1992Aug17.060351.13234@cmutual.com.au> icj@cmutual.com.au (Ian Johnston) writes:
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>	1) Has anyone connected a IBM bus/tag protocol printer (preferably
>       Xerox) to a UNIX host or TCP/IP terminal server?  If so please
>       send me details.
>
We have used a product from Dataware Development in San Diego
tel - (619) 453-7660

They make a product which turns a a PC into a bus and tag "print server".
You buy a bus/tag card (from them) that gets put into the PC and you can
print regular files to the bus/tag printer from the PC.

The great thing about this is that they have another product (called
Autoprint) which will print anything found in a specific directory and then
delete it.  This means you can set up a quasi spooling capability.  On top
of that, it does not interfere with network operations on the PC so you can
put an ethernet card in the PC WITH the bus/tag card and automatically mount
a directory using NFS on a remote host.  If you set Autoprint to use this
directory as its "spooling" directory, you only have to copy the file into
the directory on the remote and it will be printed and deleted (or copied
elsewhere for backup).

   I don't know the volume of printing you're talking about but we use it
this way and while our company is small we do a lot of printing (two
4075's which will prob be upgraded to a 4090)

   We haven't tried this with postscript files but I'm 99% sure it would
pose no problems since postscript is just ascii text.  If you need to pass
through some sort of graphics file from a postscript interpreter (since
Xerox doesn't seem to support postscript at the printer level very much), I
don't know, but again, I bet it works.
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