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- From: dan@Name: hpnmdp (Dan Pleasant)
- Subject: Re: Printing to a Unix Host
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:06:41 GMT
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- Chris ODonovan (odonovan@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
- >In article <C0qoLE.M54@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>, jonathan@gabriel.keele.ac.uk
- >(Jonathan Knight) wrote:
- >>
- >> I am not a Mac user but I am a computing officer who has been given this
- >> task. I need to get a Mac to print on a printer connected to a Unix host
- >> which is using the Berkely protocols. Here's the hardware and software
- >> specification:
-
- >Intercon sells such a product. Here is their description:
-
- >|INTERPRINT:
- >|
- >|Bringing Macintosh users the ability to print to a Unix PostScript printer
-
- >|anywhere on a network, InterCon introduces Interprint*, the industry's
- >|first commercial implementation of an LPR (Line Printer Resource) client
- >|for the Apple Macintosh.
- >|
- >|Interprint functions as a Chooser application, and allows users to access
-
- >|any LPR postscript printer on an ethernet network.
-
- >If you send email to info@intercon.com they'll send you more info. They
- >want a hundred odd dollars per Mac, which seems a bit steep for a Chooser
- >extension.
-
- >Another option, which may be better for your purposes is CAP (Columbia
- >Appletalk Extensions). These are installed on the UNIX machine and enable
- >it to speak Appletalk. The price is pretty good (free) and it's availiable
- >via FTP.
-
- >I have the only Mac in the department so I can hardly ask that they be
- >installed just for me, which is why I looked into Interprint.
-
- >If anyone has any other single Mac solutions to printing on UNIX (i.e.
- >TCP/IP) printers I would like to know about them.
-
- >TAI,
-
- >Chris Oâ•’Donovan
-
- >odonovan@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca
-
- At Mac World I found a company called Pacer Software which markets a product
- called PacerPrint. The brochure says PacerPrint is "Software for driving
- Postscript-compatible printers from a host computer." It runs on a
- variety of hosts, including all the major Unix platforms, VMS, and
- a few I never heard of. Sounds like it does what you are looking for,
- if you are using Postscript printers.
-
- Dan Pleasant
- [Absolutely no relation to Pacer Software, and I have never even seen
- the software in action.]
-
-