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Re: Mac & laserprinters

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From: Paul Durrant
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <934053408.26923.0.nnrp-06.9e980b11@news.demon.co.uk>,
"Justin Tuggey" <justin@tuggey.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a laser printer (<�500) which is compatible with both a
>PowerPC (pre. USB) and a PC laptop (with parallel, SCSI & USB ports). Is it
>just worth buying a USB laser and getting an interface card for my Mac?

You could buy PowerPrint for the mac which comes with a serial<->Parallel
converter and printer drivers. However, I would have thought a more useful
solution would be a cheap PostScript printer with an Ethernet and Parallel
interface, or even just the Ethernet interface and get an Ethernet PC Card
for the portable.

Paul Durrant
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From: paul@durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant)
Subject: Re: Mac & laserprinters
Date: 1999/08/07
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