hansen@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (hansen fred r) (05/29/90)
I apologize if this has been covered already. I just got my Sparc station up and running and I'd like to put a laserprinter on it. Sun wants $6000 for the Sun Laserwriter!! They also say I can use an Apple Laserwriter if I buy a $2000 conversion kit (how generous). As far as I can tell, the kit contains a serial cable and a Postscript driver for troff. Not even IBM and Apple overcharge this badly. Do I really have to use Sun's printer or buy their conversion kit, or will any Postscript printer do? I have a SparcStation 1+ running SunOS 4.1. I intend to use the printer to print out C listings (via enscript), Postscript graphics, and TeX/LaTeX documents. I also plan on making this printer available to several other machines via a local Sun network. Thanks for the help? Fred Hansen hansen@sandia.llnl.gov
neil@uunet.uu.net (Neil Gorsuch) (05/30/90)
In article <8231@brazos.Rice.edu> hansen@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (hansen fred r) writes: >I apologize if this has been covered already. I just got my Sparc station >up and running and I'd like to put a laserprinter on it. Sun wants $6000 >for the Sun Laserwriter!! They also say I can use an Apple Laserwriter if >I buy a $2000 conversion kit (how generous). As far as I can tell, the >kit contains a serial cable and a Postscript driver for troff. Not even >IBM and Apple overcharge this badly. Buy a really cheap laser printer, stick in a centronics parallel interface (ours is on SCSI, others are on S-bus), and have fun. If you really want to save money, buy a cheaper non-postscript laser printer and put in a public domain postscript to HP or other format filter. If you are dumping a lot of graphics data, ours and others go to high throughput rates, so you should see a very dramatic difference between the serial ports already on the Sun and any newly added parallel ports, as far as page downloading time. Neil Gorsuch INTERNET: neil@uninet.cpd.com UUCP: uunet!zardoz!neil MAIL: 1209 E. Warner, Santa Ana, CA, USA, 92705 PHONE: +1 714 546 1100 Uninet, a division of Custom Product Design, Inc. FAX: +1 714 546 3726 AKA: root, security-request, uuasc-request, postmaster, usenet, news