mkkam@wael.cs.uh.edu (Francis Kam) (06/29/88)
Did anyone connect a Mac (SE or II) to a PostScript laser printer (such as the DEC LN03R) using RS-232? The problem is that I don't have any driver other than the laserprep and laserprinter drivers on the system disk. I made a cable using the -Tx and -Rx (instead of the +Tx and +Rx pins which're told for Appletalk) pins to connect the two but when I choose LaserWriter in Chooser, it asks for AppleTalk. It seems to me that I can either buy a driver that uses RS-232 or brute-force AppleTalk into RS-232 which I don't know whether it would work. If anyone knows any public domain drivers for RS-232 on Mac or the source, or have done anything like this, please help. Thank you. ------------- Francis Kam Computer Science Department Internet: mkkam@sun1.cs.uh.edu University of Houston CSNET: mkkam@houston.csnet 4800 Calhoun Phone: (713)749-1748 Houston, TX 77004.
cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) (06/30/88)
In article <779@uhnix1.uh.edu> mkkam@wael.cs.uh.edu (Francis Kam) writes: > >Did anyone connect a Mac (SE or II) to a PostScript laser printer (such >as the DEC LN03R) using RS-232? The problem is that I don't have any > Sure. Call APDA and get ahold of APDA#KMS002 Aysnchronous LaserWriter Driver package. It consists of a LaserWriter driver which can be configured to drive a modem, a direct connect rs232 line and a host of other possibilities. I have played with it and it seems to work just fine, though when we haven't managed to convince it to work when connected via a PRINTMASTER box (lets two computers talk to one printer using timeouts and xon/xoff to keep them from mixing up their output). We are still working on it. I also fear that I will have to wait longer for updates of the standard laserwritter to the asynch laserwriter. But it does seem to work. Imagin, a DIALUP laser- writer!! You could produce the output, but you couldn't see it till someone delievered it. How about, call up the campus, start the output, driver over arriving just as it finishes.. Ah, well, enough babbling, I hope this helps. -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) - Saki UUCP: taux01!yossie@nsc.UUCP NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY