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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!fornax!skl
- From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
- Subject: Re: Connecting an HP Laser Printer on the Ethernet
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.013500.12677@cs.sfu.ca>
- Sender: skl@cs.sfu.ca (Samuel Lam)
- Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
- References: <2230232@hprnd.rose.hp.com> <1992Aug22.174313.10461@sulo.otol.fi> <ARONS.92Aug24164957@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:35:00 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <ARONS.92Aug24164957@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu>,
- arons@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Tom Arons) wrote:
- >>You can buy a network card from HP that plugs directly into
- >>your laser printer. There are IPX/SPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP
- >>versions of the card.
-
- They actually have two TCP/IP cards, one behaves like a LPD server
- and the other behaves like a single-port terminal server with a
- printer attached.
-
- >You can also buy an ethernet printserver box from Milan or Microplex for < $1k
- >list. These boxes both talk tcp/ip and come with host side spooling software.
-
- The Microplex box can also run both in LPD server and "terminal server
- with printers attached" modes.
-
- ...Sam
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- <skl@wimsey.bc.ca>
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