[net.micro.pc] Apple Laser Printer and Other PC's

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
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