jmr@NADA.KTH.SE (Jan Michael Rynning) (01/24/90)
In article <9001230340.AA13706@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> rcpt@eutrc4.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes: >The LPS20 Laserprinter from DEC seems an interesting printer. According to >its specification this printer has the following abilities: > [...] > d) can be hooked up to DECnet and/or TCP/IP (network printer). According to a DEC salesman I talked to, the printer can only be hooked up to DECnet, so if you want to use TCP/IP with it, you'll need an ULTRIX machine as a gateway. He also told me that the software that runs on the ULTRIX machine doesn't support the UNIX LPD protocol, so you'll have to implement DEC's proprietary printer protocol on your TCP/IP machines. >[...] >How does TeX-output look like? I remember a complain made by Peter Flynn >regarding the poor quality of the LPS40. I would be pleased to see how this >is solved (if it's solved) with the LPS20. > >(Here a copy of the complain made by Peter Flynn: >>>[...] Any rule below 1pt is likely to suffer from varying >>>numbers of pixels being printed, depending on where in the page it falls. >>>[...] That sounds like a PostScript programming problem rather than a problem with the printer itself. I had that problem myself with another printer, and solved it by doing appropriate rounding of the coordinate values in the device coordinate space. Jan Michael Rynning, jmr@nada.kth.se Department of Numerical Analysis If you can't fully handle domains: and Computing Science, ARPA: jmr%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net Royal Institute of Technology, UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,...}!nada.kth.se!jmr S-100 44 Stockholm, BITNET: jmr@sekth Sweden. Phone: +46-8-7906288
ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley) (02/08/90)
In article <9002072151.AA21158@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, jmr@NADA.KTH.SE (Jan Michael Rynning) writes: > > In article <9001230340.AA13706@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> rcpt@eutrc4.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes: > >The LPS20 Laserprinter from DEC seems an interesting printer. According to > >its specification this printer has the following abilities: > > [...] > > d) can be hooked up to DECnet and/or TCP/IP (network printer). > > According to a DEC salesman I talked to, the printer can only be hooked > up to DECnet, so if you want to use TCP/IP with it, you'll need an ULTRIX > machine as a gateway. He also told me that the software that runs on the > ULTRIX machine doesn't support the UNIX LPD protocol, so you'll have to > implement DEC's proprietary printer protocol on your TCP/IP machines. You can now buy two variants of the LPS20/40 software. One is decnet based and one is tcp/ip. There also exist VMS/DECNET, ULTRIX/DECNET clients. I've got specs and prices right here on my desk. We, unfortunately are stuck with a couple of VMS machines on a largely UNIX network so it looks like we'll have to go for the decnet version. Email: NTitley@axion.bt.co.uk Snail: British Telecom Research labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK "Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted." (James Thurber)
chet@CWNS1.INS.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) (02/09/90)
In article <9002072151.AA21158@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, jmr@NADA.KTH.SE (Jan Michael Rynning) writes: > According to a DEC salesman I talked to, the printer can only be hooked > up to DECnet, so if you want to use TCP/IP with it, you'll need an ULTRIX > machine as a gateway. This much is true. > He also told me that the software that runs on the > ULTRIX machine doesn't support the UNIX LPD protocol, so you'll have to > implement DEC's proprietary printer protocol on your TCP/IP machines. I'm running the Printserver Decnet software on an Ultrix 3.0 machine, with few problems. The `Printserver Client' software that I'm running came with an updated/enhanced lpr/lpd system. I can print just fine from other Unix machines to the LPS20 via the Ultrix machine using the regular 4.3 BSD lpd software. Chet Ramey "Can't you pay a grad student to Network Services Group read the manual for you?" Case Western Reserve University -- Bill Wisner, chet@ins.CWRU.Edu to Peter Honeyman