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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!tte
- From: tte@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: PC to talk to PostScript printer on Ethernet LAN
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.184115.10119@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 18:41:15 +1200
- References: <BsMuyK.A6y@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
- Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <BsMuyK.A6y@peora.sdc.ccur.com>, tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
- >
- > At our site we have multiple Unix workstations connected together by Ethernet
- > We have a HP LaserJet IIIsi with PostScript cartridge. This HP is equipped with
- > an ethernet card so we can send output directly to it from each workstation.
- >
- > We have a 386 PC and we want to use the HP PostScript printer on the Unix
- > network. What we need is an ethernet card for the PC and some software to
- > transfer data from PC to HP printer. Even better is some software that made
- > the whole thing transparent to the user so, let's say, I would install
- > Microsoft Word for PostScript and able to print directly from inside Word.
- >
- > I am not sure that I need only an Ethernet card with software or I need to
- > get a LAN hardware/software combo for PC in order to talk to the printer
- > resided on Ethernet LAN.
- >
- > I would appreciate if someone could give me some pointers in this matter.
- >
- > N. Tran
- > tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com
- >
-
- Simply buy an Intel Netport ans connect it at any place in the network.
- Configure it as a network printer and plug the printer into it. Works very
- well. You can buy them with 2 parallel and 1 serial port all in the one unit.
- Cost approx $1200NZ
-