tj@utcs.UUCP (tj) (06/16/85)
At U of T an Apple Laser printer was just purchased and hooked up to our vax at Erindale College. I went through the manuals and it is really a versatile printer that is definately not meant just to be hooked up to the Macintosh. It does instantly connect to the Mac, and it prints anything you can put on the screen, but it also has other modes that make it very attractive as an IBM PC printer. (They tell you in the apple manual how to hook it up to the PC sort of) It has a mode where it talks appletalk so it hooks to the mac, then a setting where it accepts PostScrit commands. It has the postscript language built in and with that you can draw and write virtually anything. There are a number of word processing packages out now that produce postscript output (WORD and Final Word). There is yet another position where it acts like a Diablo 630. I had not heard much about a Diablo 630 till after I saw this printer. I checked a few word packages and they *ALL* support the Diablo 630. I hear you can do lots with a 630. Anybody out there using one, how goes it? t.jones
nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (06/18/85)
> There is yet another > position where it acts like a Diablo 630. I had not heard much about a Diablo > 630 till after I saw this printer. I checked a few word packages and they > *ALL* support the Diablo 630. I hear you can do lots with a 630. > > Anybody out there using one, how goes it? > t.jones We have been using the Diablo 630 ECS (extended character set) printers for about 2 years. We just bought an Apple LaserWriter in hopes it will do a better job. -- Ed Nather Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA