[comp.protocols.appletalk] Canon color laser copier PostScript interface networking

crum@fcom.utah.edu (Gary Crum) (03/13/91)

Hi.  Does anyone know if the PostScript interface for the Canon color
laser copier includes some sort of AppleTalk support, like a LocalTalk
or EtherTalk interface?  Any experience using it (the PostScript interface)
out there?  Sure hope Kinkos puts PostScript interfaces to their Canon
color laser copiers in their stores sometime.  Color copies are less than $3
each these days.  Also, if anyone has setup CAP papif to send to a
Canon color copier (assuming it DOES have a PostScript) interface, please
let me know -- e.g. on SiliconGraphics, Sun or NeXT computers.  Note that
CAP papif on a NeXT will not properly spool to an AppleTalk LaserWriter
spooling service of Novell Netware -- or at least it didn't work when I
tried it last summer.  (Novell Netware with AppleTalk support running on
PCs has the capability of accepting pring jobs using AppleTalk PAP.)

Gary

raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) (03/15/91)

In article <CRUM.91Mar13090234@fcom.utah.edu> crum@fcom.utah.edu (Gary Crum)
writes:

>    Hi. 

G'day.

>    Does anyone know if the PostScript interface for the Canon color
>    laser copier includes some sort of AppleTalk support, like a
>    LocalTalk or EtherTalk interface?  Any experience using it (the
>    PostScript interface) out there? 

Yes, the PostScript IPU at least has a LocalTalk interface.  We plugged it
into our LocalTalk network and it worked straight away.  Very nice pretty
pictures. 

>    Also, if anyone has setup CAP papif to send to a Canon color
>    copier (assuming it DOES have a PostScript) interface, please let
>    me know -- e.g.  on SiliconGraphics, Sun or NeXT computers. 

Yup, but this didn't work.  I tried using tlw and it couldn't get a status
out of the printer.  They took the IPU away (it was a prototype) before I
could finds the time and disk space to check the CAP sources.  It's
probably a simple fix. 
-- 
Andrew Raphael <raphael@research.canon.oz.au>
Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust.