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- From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: PostScript Printer Info...
- Message-ID: <SIMON.93Jan21143532@liasg2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:35:32 GMT
- References: <35140@adm.brl.mil>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In-reply-to: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu's message of 20 Jan 93 21:26:00 GMT
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- In article <35140@adm.brl.mil> macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob
- MacLeod) writes:
-
- We have been really pleased with the HP IIIsi and can recommend it
- without reservation. I don't know about direct connection to the
- SGIs but using the CAP/Appletalk route, we have excellent speed and
- stability. And we were able to put the whole thing together with
- public domain software (lp2ps and CAP) and thus save a few dollars.
-
- We have an HPIIISi connected to the parallel port of an Indigo and I can
- also highly recommend this printer. Especially the duplex option is a
- big win. The problem with parallel communication is that the connection
- to the printer is so fast that you usually don't have a chance to cancel
- a job once you've sent it. There also doesn't seem to be a way to get
- status messages back from the printer (other than printing them, of
- course :-). But it's really fast (and works even without any additional
- software ;-).
- --
- Simon.
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