On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:07:06AM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
Personally I never saw the point of print servers, but there might be
environments which make them usefull otherwise they would not be
around.
They are a big benefit in non-trivial situations, or even at home if
you have
Our friend Charles Shannon Hendrix (probably derived from the Dutch
name Hendriks) is really up to something.
I am starting to get the picture... This rip unix print server thing
might allow vintage macs to do high resolution color printing,
something that was a bit out their league because of
It will take the vintage mac some time to send the enormous postscipt
files to the print server but once it is there and the print server
is fast enough, you'll get a high resolution color print without
having to wait that long...
Marten
--
More expensive than RRs...
I don't know if anyone
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
Our friend Charles Shannon Hendrix (probably derived from the Dutch
name Hendriks) is really up to something.
I've been trying... :)
It will take the vintage mac some time to send the enormous postscipt
files to the
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:02PM +0010, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every 68k Mac can print to any postscript laserprinter (emulated postscript
and real postscript) that talks appletalk (these specs involve about every
...which doesn't do you any good if your printer is not capable of
Depends on how well the PostScript is emulated. :P
I had a Qume CrystalPrint Publisher II that would
work, barely, when it felt like it with the
LaserWriter
drivers compatable with Mac OS 7.6.1 on my Power IIci.
With olde enough drivers and System 7.1 it worked
fine.
Tried to install older
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For Macintosh
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Macintosh
For Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Windows
There you'll also find PPD files for Mac and
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:04:17PM -0800, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
Depends on how well the PostScript is emulated. :P I had a Qume CrystalPrint
Publisher II that would work, barely, when it felt like it with the
LaserWriter drivers compatable with Mac OS 7.6.1 on my Power IIci. With
olde enough
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:02:49AM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
For example, I have a color Epson Stylus Color 880 hooked up to my UNIX
machine running CUPS and GIMP-Print drivers. As far as I know that is
the only way to make this printer available to any system on the LAN,
as a color
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:31AM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
These ppd files are the same for every operating system from unix to
mac to windows, as someone on this list has already stated before.
Actually, they vary.
I have had some software choke on Mac PPD files for example.
Try
If you have a printer with 68k Mac drivers and an
ethernet LAN, grab one of the HP JetDirect EX
printserver boxes off eBay. You want to make certain
to get the Ethernet version! There's also a JetDirect
EX Plus 3 that can run 3 printers. Make sure you
get the power supply because it uses a
The thread is about getting a Mac to talk to a UNIX print server.
Originally maybe, but other related printing issues were being
discussed too. That's the way these lists work. I was discussing one
of those other related issues.
I know all about what a network PostScript printer can do. If I
At 05:07 +0100 on 30/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
I know all about what a network PostScript printer can do. If I had
one of those I might not have started the thread!
You should get one. They are not very expensive secondhand and very
cheap in usage compared to inkjet printers, besides
Quoting Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What if it's a new printer without 68k drivers and
doesn't have LaserWriter emulation? (Or emulation
for any other PostScript printer brand that had 68k
drivers?)
Every 68k Mac can print to any postscript laserprinter (emulated postscript
and real
Any PostScript printer should work, not just laser printers. There are
inkjet printers, image setters, etc, that have hardware or software PS
RIPs.
All PostScript printers have PPDs, by definition. PPDs are plain text
files and, in my experience, cross platform. If you find a Mac,
Windows,
All PostScript printers have PPDs, by definition. PPDs are plain text
files and, in my experience, cross platform. If you find a Mac,
Windows, UNIX, etc, PPD for your printer, it should work with a Mac OS
printer driver. Also, many 68K machines running System 7 or 8 can use
use an older version
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:02PM +0010, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every 68k Mac can print to any postscript laserprinter (emulated postscript
and real postscript) that talks appletalk (these specs involve about every
...which doesn't do you any good if your printer is not capable of
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:38:41AM -0800, James S Jones wrote:
Any PostScript printer should work, not just laser printers. There are
inkjet printers, image setters, etc, that have hardware or software PS
RIPs.
*IF* you can communicate with it in the protocol is wants.
Right now most all
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What if it's a new printer without 68k drivers and
doesn't have LaserWriter emulation? (Or emulation
for any other PostScript printer brand that had
68k drivers?)
Every 68k Mac can print to any postscript
For Macintosh
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Macintosh
For Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Windows
There you'll also find PPD files for Mac and Windows
as well as a few INF files for Windows.
For Mac the
On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 07:28 am, Charles Shannon Hendrix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The point is to share the printer. It's hooked up to a UNIX system.
All
the machines share it via the print spooler. The server uses
GhostScript so
every machine prints PostScript to it.
At 22:54 +0200 on 26/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
to be able to pull this trick. This means that one must use a printer
with unix (linux mostly) driver software. Sorry, if I sound a bit
confused, but I don't get the picture right away...
Can one, considering the fact that there is also rip
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:08:23PM -0500, the pickle wrote:
As crazy as this sounds, it's probably a lot easier to do with *nix (including
OS X) than with any other platform. Gimp-print claims to have better drivers
than the manufacturers' drivers in most cases, and it runs great on OS X or
At 15:50 -0600 on 27/10/02, Christopher Melita wrote:
Hi all I got my copy of 7.1 installed it and turned on the color. It works
great thanks for the help. I even installed a copy of word 6.1 hehehe
I really really really - for the sake of your own sanity - hope you mean 5.1.
--
the pickle
What is the point? All Macs support post script printing right
out of the box.
The point is to share the printer. It's hooked up to a UNIX system. All
the machines share it via the print spooler. The server uses GhostScript so
every machine prints PostScript to it.
So... in order for the
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:10:23AM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
All Macs support postscript printing over appletalk anyway.
Postscript laserwriters have always been network printers in Mac
networks, with or without a unix machine.
I know that...
You don't need a unix machine to
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
All Macs support postscript printing over appletalk
anyway.
Postscript laserwriters have always been network
printers in Mac
networks, with or without a unix machine.
You don't need a unix machine to share a postscript
printer in a Mac
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:52:40PM -0700, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
Firstly, your printer must have 68k drivers that
will work with the System or Mac OS version you have.
[snip]
What about using a UNIX machine to serve the printing needs of 68k Macs?
Is there any software for the Mac to talk to
What about using a UNIX machine to serve the printing needs of 68k Macs?
Is there any software for the Mac to talk to a standard BSD print
service?
That way you could have a PostScript printer or even a GhostScript
controlled printer on a UNIX host for the Mac to print to.
What is the point?
Subject: Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:
What about using a UNIX machine to serve the printing needs of 68k Macs?
Is there any software for the Mac to talk to a standard BSD print
service?
That way you could have a PostScript printer or even a GhostScript
controlled printer
At 22:21 +0200 on 26/10/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
What about using a UNIX machine to serve the printing needs of 68k Macs?
Is there any software for the Mac to talk to a standard BSD print
service?
That way you could have a PostScript printer or even a GhostScript
controlled printer on a
What is the point? All Macs support post script printing right out
of the box.
Right, but not many inkjets, which are what people normally want via USB, do.
There are *nix packages that can act as software RIPs and turn an
inkjet into a
pseudo-PostScript printer.
M So in order to
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:27:22PM -0400, the pickle wrote:
Right, but not many inkjets, which are what people normally want via USB,
do. There are *nix packages that can act as software RIPs and turn an
inkjet into a pseudo-PostScript printer.
Exactly. I've been able to print some very
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:21:38PM +0200, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
What about using a UNIX machine to serve the printing needs of 68k Macs?
Is there any software for the Mac to talk to a standard BSD print
service?
That way you could have a PostScript printer or even a GhostScript
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you set that up? It sure would help me out
with my Macs. Also, can a
Mac with a non-USB OS like System 7.1 use shared USB
printers on newer Macs
if the older Mac has the printer's driver installed?
Firstly, your printer must have 68k drivers
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