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- From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Printers
- In-Reply-To: andy@research.canon.oz.au's message of 16 Nov 92 03:38:10 GMT
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- Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
- References: <BxsI3M.2FC@research.canon.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:32:41 GMT
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- In article <BxsI3M.2FC@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
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- I'm interested in finding out about how printers operate over the SCSI
- bus. I'm not talking about the use of SCSI for a printer's own use
- (i.e. to support a disk for font and image storage) but as the main
- interface to the printer. The only SCSI connected printer device's
- that I know anything about use SCSI to transfer rasters (framebuffers)
- from the RIP to the print engine. Is anyone aware of other uses of
- SCSI in printers? For example are there any PostScript printers out
- there that use SCSI as the main interface.
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- There is at least one RIP that uses SCSI for postscript but I haven't
- seen it used directly, only indirectly with a network controller. As
- far as I know its a board level thing and not meant to connect to a
- workstation or anything.
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- Several vendors, ourselves included, use SCSI for transfering and
- buffering the bits.
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- jv
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