john@wizard.UUCP (John Danner) (08/03/89)
I'm sure this has been asked too many times, but what are the steps in getting a Laserwriter to print from a Mac running A/UX 1.1? John Danner Tandem Computers Net: pacbell!tandem!wizard!john@decwrl.dec.com UUCP:...!decwrl!pacbell!tandem!wizard!john
time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres) (08/03/89)
In article <366@wizard.UUCP> john@wizard.UUCP (John Danner) writes:
I'm sure this has been asked too many times, but what are the steps in
getting a Laserwriter to print from a Mac running A/UX 1.1?
Well, many people will tell you about buying AppleTalk boards and such,
but there is a simple and cheap solution as well. I use a program
called "MacPS" that comes from the net (I forget the author's name
this second). What MacPS does, is read your LaserPrep and fix it to
work with lp. Then, when you print from your Mac application, you use
the "Cmd-F" key combination to get a PostScriptN file. This is then
fed into MacPS and redirected to lp, and MAGIC!, the file is printed.
Since this uses the serial port, no expensive boards are required.
What I have done is set up a daemon that sits and looks for these
PostScriptN files, then prints them using MacPS automatically. So to
me it just looks like print spooling. Of course, I have to deal with
the obscenity of timing that "Cmd-F" thing!
I wish Apple would provide a page setup option to do this with a radio
control. It is no longer some "Secret-Programming-Police" feature that
needs hiding from the user.
Alternatively, if you wish to do normal printing, using Mac Print
Manager stuff and the Chooser, you need to purchase a special
AppleTalk baord. This is the only support for AppleTalk under A/UX.