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- Subject: Re: PC to talk to PostScript printer on Ethernet LAN
- Message-ID: <hippo.9.0@sonoma.edu>
- From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
- Date: 20 Aug 92 20:29:48 PDT
- References: <BsMuyK.A6y@peora.sdc.ccur.com> <1992Aug17.033911.8405@atlas.abccomp.oz.au>
- Organization: Sonoma state university
- Keywords: printer, ethernet
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- In article <1992Aug17.033911.8405@atlas.abccomp.oz.au> paul@atlas.abccomp.oz.au (Paul Brooks) writes:
- >Subject: Re: PC to talk to PostScript printer on Ethernet LAN
- >From: paul@atlas.abccomp.oz.au (Paul Brooks)
- >Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:39:11 GMT
- >Keywords: printer, ethernet
- >In article <BsMuyK.A6y@peora.sdc.ccur.com> tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
- >|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.
- >
- >We have software that will transparently capture printer output on a PC
- >and re-route it to printers/print queues attached to unix hosts. You could
- >set up, for example, LPT2 to be redirected to a laser printer, LPT3 to be
- >redirected to a line printer, and leave LPT1 as the locally attached PC printer
- >if you wished. Its commercial, so for further information please contact
- >us at: info@abccomp.oz.au.
- >
- >--
- >Paul Brooks |paul@abccomp.oz.au |LIFE is a bowl of cherries:
- >TurboSoft Pty Ltd |pwb@newt.phys.unsw.oz.au| sweet at first, until you
- >248 Johnston St. Annandale| | reach the pits.
- >Sydney Australia 2038 |ph: +61 2 552 3088 |
- We use this and this is much faster then any other way we have tried.
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