Subject: Re: serial input on a laserwriter ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Tobias Seiler <tobi@themaster.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/30/2003 15:31:44
HI Manuel,

as this apple list suggests, this model has 'only' a LocalTalk port. So 
you need a converter of some type...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30154

regs Tobias

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:34:14 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> [ please keep me in Cc, I'm not subscribed to port-mac68k ]
> 
> Hi,
> sorry for the somewhat off topic post (although the printer in 
> question would
> be connected to a NetBSD box, of course :)
> 
> Can the serial port on a laserwriter (to be more precise, a personal
> laserwriter 320) be used as a regular serial port to send plain postscript,
> or do we have to talk appletalk on it ?
> This printer doesn't have parallel input.
> 
> The other way to be able to use this printer would be a 
> appletalk<->ethertalk
> gateway, but I don't have one handy ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
>      NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
> 

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