[comp.protocols.appletalk] Printing on MAC Ethernet lans

rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) (03/13/88)

Can anyone help sort out what options I have for printing services on
a small network of MAC IIs on it's own Ethernet, using Ethertalk hardware
and software?  As I understand it, even Apple's new laser printers have
only an Appletalk (Localtalk?) interface.  The thought of using a Kinetics
box "backwards" just to get print spooling capability seems like a horrible
kludge, not to mention expensive.  Can it be that Apple has thought this
through so badly that there is *no* approved way to run network printing
services on an Ethernet-based MAC network?

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