Jeff Walther wrote: > I was shopping for an affordable color laser printer and had narrowed > my choices to the Kyocera EP C170N ($200 @ buy.com & Amazon.com), > Xerox Phaser 8190 ($250 @ Staples last week, perhaps again before the > new year) and the Brother HL-4070CDW ($300 at Newegg but has > duplexer). They all have postscript or emulation and built-in > ethernet so I figured that Mac support was workable even if I have to > fall back to a generic postscript driver. > > However, towards the end of my comparison I realized that only the > Kyocera has AppleTalk as one of its supported protocols. The others > are limited to TCP/IP. > > So when did printing over TCP/IP become available. In other words, > how much of a limitation is the lack of AppleTalk support for those of > us keeping older Macs in use?
Desktop Printing introduced printing via IP. I think it came in OS 9 but it may have been earlier. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
