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Re: Serial Ports.
>>>>> "TC" == TC Lai <tclai@ucla.edu> writes:
TC> If you're using an older printer, you'll still have a serial
TC> connector (for connecting to PC's). I don't know what kind of
TC> kludge you'll have to hack together to use it though. Probably
TC> the same thing you'd do with an old LaserJet I imagine.
No kludge if you're running linux. It can publish it's (serial)
printers on the appletalk network (using netatalk), and you can even
print postscript to a non-postscript printer if you use a filter that
runs the file through ghostscript before sending it to the printer...
Since it this offloads all the processing to the daemon on the linux
box, a Mac printing this way will be also be unloaded sooner.
--
Rob