owenr@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Russell Owen) (04/25/89)
Hi, I want to print to a laserwrite from a machine running AUX. AUX doesn't support appletalk printing. I think it is possible to print to a laserwriter through the serial port but this would make that printer unavailable to the Mac OS Appletalk network machines. SuperMac apparently makes such a card but so far they haven't returned my phone calls. Is anyone using such a card? Do other people have suggestions. I am considering this route instead of a GatorBox for price reasons. Thanks, Russ Owen -- Russ Owen UUCP owen@utgpu.uucp Toronto, Canada. BITNET owen@utorgpu.bitnet INTERNET owen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca Disclaimer: My opinion are unlikely to spark controversy
liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) (04/28/89)
In article <1989Apr25.091954.5883@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> owenr@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Russell Owen) writes: > I want to print to a laserwriter from a machine running AUX. >AUX doesn't support appletalk printing. ... >SuperMac apparently makes such a card but so far they >haven't returned my phone calls. Is anyone using such a card? A/UX 1.1 can print though the SuperMac card, to AppleTalk, from within the toolbox. This means that you can run your HyperCard 1.2.2, MSWord 4.0 or whatever and print using the normal "Print" option. I have seen this working here in the UK, though it was all Beta stuff at the time. I don't know if you can print from ordinary A/UX spoolers, but the AppleTalk support is fairly public (a directory full of socket1, socket2, .. devices) and so hacking CAP should be easy enough. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP 190 Mile End Road Tel: 01-975 5250 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Fax: 01-981 7517
lemke@banana.ucsb.edu (Steve C. Lemke) (05/01/89)
In an article <@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> owenr@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Russell Owen) writes: } I want to print to a laserwriter from a machine running AUX. }AUX doesn't support appletalk printing. I think it is possible to print }to a laserwriter through the serial port but this would make that printer }unavailable to the Mac OS Appletalk network machines. SuperMac apparently }makes such a card but so far they haven't returned my phone calls. }Is anyone using such a card? Do other people have suggestions. }I am considering this route instead of a GatorBox for price reasons. Ahhh. Earlier, I posted a message indicating I had heard of a program that allowed you to use any Macintosh (down to the Plus) to collect the PostScript that you generate into its serial port, and then have it spit it back out over AppleTalk to the printer. I also mentioned that I couldn't remember where I had heard about this program. Well, I just figured it out. The program is called Janus 1.5, and was recently posted to comp.binaries.mac in two parts. Here is the info. section from the first posting. If you can't find it at your favorite news-carrying site, let me know and I'll mail it to you... }[Janus 1.5 - part 1 of 2] } }The attached program runs on a Mac (from 128K to Mac II), and takes }PostScript from its serial port and send it to a LaserWriter on the }AppleTalk port. This allows you to attach a non-Mac system into an }AppleTalk printer network. The system you attach must have the }appropriate lineprinter filters to talk to a LW over a serial line; }Janus tries to behave as would a LW on a serial line responding to }control sequences just as the LW would. We use it at Kernel in }conjunction with a Unix system running Transcript 2.1, and it works }fine. It uses the PAP routines that I posted to the moderator some }time ago. } }Read the attached MacWrite file for more details. } }Sak Wathanasin }(I have a new job, and you cannot reply via e-mail. Send bug reports }to me by post to }Research and Development Group }Linotype UK }Bath Road }Cheltenham }Glos. GL53 7LR, UK) Hope this helps... Steve Lemke (lemke@apple.ucsb.edu)
alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (05/07/89)
Russ Owen asks about using the SuperMac CommCard to print over AppleTalk from
A/UX.
I've seen a few machines using this card this way. I've never heard of any
problems. You can also do this under the Mac OS, and you'll get back most
of your CPU as a bonus since it buffers packets.
I'm buying two of these on Monday, but for use as serial ports.
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Alexis Rosen
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Russ Owen asks about using the SuperMac CommCard to print over AppleTalk from
A/UX.
I've seen a few machines using this card this way. I've never heard of any
problems. You can also do this under the Mac OS, and you'll get back most
of your CPU as a bonus since it buffers packets.
I'm buying two of these on monday, but for use as serial ports.
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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)Fabian@cup.portal.com (Fabian Fabe Ramirez) (05/16/89)
Alexis, Try sending a message to Paul Campbell (paul@taniwha.UUCP). Paul wrote the software and designed CommCard. Fabian Ramirez SuperMac Technology fabian@cup.portal.com sun!cup.portal.com!fabian