sunil@oakhill.UUCP (Sunil Khatri) (12/19/89)
Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone out yonder in PCland had any experience / ideas about how to network a Postscript printer (NEC LC 890) with a PC AT and a Mac SE 30. The aim is to be able to use the printer to print files/graphics from both hosts. Is there standard hardware available for this? How much would something like that cost me? Ideas about where I may get this hardware? Any other suggestions? Thanks, Sunil
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (12/22/89)
In article <2756@sunbow.oakhill.UUCP> sunil@sunbow.UUCP (Sunil P. Khatri) writes:
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<I was wondering if anyone out yonder in PCland had any experience / ideas
<about how to network a Postscript printer (NEC LC 890) with a PC AT and
<a Mac SE 30. The aim is to be able to use the printer to print
<files/graphics from both hosts.
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<Is there standard hardware available for this? How much would something like
<that cost me? Ideas about where I may get this hardware? Any other suggestions?
Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I wouldn't try to run a PostScript
laser printer with both a PC and a MAC. The MAC software tends to load stuff
into the printer (to prep it) so that it can just send what it needs to the
printer. Sending PC PostScript files to the printer, may mess up that prep
code, or worse yet, end up removing it.
When you start swearing at the thing, just remember I warned you.
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