Subject: Re: printer madness!
To: Joel Klecker <jk@esperance.com>
From: xiamin <ingerrn@cris.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/23/1997 21:18:52
(i know this is off topic, but im just fishing for anyones expertis on this)
since it isnt a ps printer..will it work with laser writer 8? or do i 
have to get some other driver for it? (macos side, i dont have a macos 
system near me, so i cant see if i already havee it or not)

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Joel Klecker wrote:

> 1997-03-23 at approximately 5:16 PM -0800, xiamin wrote:
> > does the apple style writer work with netbsd?
> 
> Yes, with Monroe Williams' "Non-MacOS" StyleWriter driver at
> <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~monroe/styl/>.
> 
> > also i just my hands on a laser writer IIsc, it connects via scsi (there
> > is also a adb port on the back...it scares me) could this thing work too?
> 
> The LW IIsc is not a PostScript printer, and furthermore, I don't think
> NetBSD knows how to talk to SCSI printers. As for the ADB port, I believe
> that the other members of the LaserWriter II family have this as well, It
> was supposed to accommodate printer peripherals (like auto-collaters or
> something of that nature), but I don't think any such peripherals were ever
> produced.
> 
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