km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (03/06/88)
Does anyone know about any efforts to market an ethernet interface for the Apple Laserwriter? My impression is that the high end of the new line of Apple Laserwriters has enough expansion capability to accomodate other network interfaces. I know about other solutions (Gator/Kinetics) to bridge an Appletalk to ethernet, and I know about other vendors like Imagen who make ethernet interfaces with there own printers. I'm just hoping for a convenient built in Apple solution for our next laserwriter. -- Ken Mandelberg | {decvax,sun!sunatl,gatech}!emory!km UUCP Emory University | km@emory BITNET Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.ARPA ARPA,CSNET Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963
roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith) (03/21/88)
km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) writes: > Does anyone know about any efforts to market an ethernet interface for > the Apple Laserwriter? [...] I know about other solutions (Gator/Kinetics) > to bridge an Appletalk to ethernet I remember having a conversation with somebody (probably Charlie Kim <cck@columbia>, but I'm not sure) a while ago about throughput to a laserwriter via a kbox. He claimed at the time that, contrary to what you might expect, you can do better with a 19.2k serial line to a LaserWriter than going through a kbox over the ethernet. One of our applications for the LW is printing 512 x 512 bitmaps; the PostScript is basicly just a single image operator followed by a half Mbyte of hex data. Seems to me that if you could just shove the bits into the LW fast enough, you should be able to reach the mythical 8ppm speed the LW print engine is capable of. What's a "Gator"? -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016