On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:

> Anyway, looking around the office at my piles of obsolete hardware, I'm 
> wondering about setting up the IIci again just to be a printserver for the 
> obsolete DeskWriter (no model number; it's that old).
> 
> I recall that someone had the drivers working, but the processor is a bit 
> anemic for rendering fonts for ghostscript :)
> 
> So the idea that keeps bouncing around my head is to somehow have the K6 run 
> ghostscript, render the bitmap, and then send this to the IIci under the desk 
> to send to the printer.
> 
> Is this reasonable?  And can I pull this off if I can only come up with 60mb 
> of hard disk space?

That's reasonable, if the print spooler which receives the spool jobs on
the IIci can deal with binary files (so any ^D's in the data stream are
safe). I'm not sure if lpr will do.

I had that driver. I really need to update it... The changes were to gs
2.6.2! Ick!

Take care,

Bill