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  2. From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Laserwriter 600/630 vs. HP Laserjet 4M
  5. Message-ID: <C1GvGC.AyE@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 15:09:48 GMT
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  15. drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
  16.  
  17. >In article <C19Ezz.Cu4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian
  18. >Hughes) writes:
  19. >>    I don't know about that. The PS1700 that I have processes a page so
  20. >>quickly that it appears to be slow because it has to wait for the
  21. >>information to be sent over the LocalTalk port (what I wouldn't give for
  22. >>EtherNet).
  23.  
  24. >Phone QMS and ask for the Release 2 ROM upgrade. They say that it will
  25. >optionally support EtherTalk, but only if you don't use any other protocol on
  26. >the Ethernet port. I can't try it myself, because we have the Ethernet port
  27. >answering TCP/IP print jobs.
  28.  
  29.     My last comment was meant to be read "What I wouldn't do to have
  30. Ethernet in my office," not in the printer. If my office was on
  31. EtherTalk instead of LocalTalk I would have ordered the printer with the
  32. Ethernet option.
  33.  
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