On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:45:58 +0000, Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > One other caveat: this is a postscript printer (I bought an add-on PS > board for it). Therefore all the computers (PCs and Macs) simply talk > Postscript to it and it understands. I'm not so sure of it would work > if the printer was restricted to PCL5 or something like that. > > In fact I'd welcome advice on that: can a non-PS printer be placed on > the network in this way? Will Macs in particular print to > network-attached printers that aren't Postscript? > At various times over the years, I have attempted to find a solution to this very problem and so far - no luck. In view of all the clever stuff that's been developed such as Thursby's DAVE and VirtualPC and so on, it's a mystery as to why nobody's come up with a PCL network print driver - there's certainly a potential market and I can't see why there'd be an insurmountable technical issue. Anyone?
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