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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: Printing from Sun to Mac LaserWriter
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.220012.723@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <168CD7A8A.M21520@mwvm.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:00:12 GMT
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- In article <168CD7A8A.M21520@mwvm.mitre.org> M21520@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
- >Our office has an Ethernet LAN of approximately 60 Macs, 6 Mac LaserWriters, &
- >one Sun workstation. We would like to print to the existing LaserWriters from
- >the Sun. Being new to the Sun admin world, I am seeking the wisdom of the
- >net.
- >
- >Can I simply edit the /etc/printcap file with parameters for the LaserWriters?
- >Do we need special software to do this? Thanks in advance for any help!
- >
- Alas, there's usually a little more to it than that. How are your
- LaserWriters currently connected to your Macs? Via EtherTalk? There
- are usually two main ways of doing what you want to do-- either buy a
- Gatorbox from Cayman (sp?) systems, which allows Unix lpd requests to go
- through to the Laserwriter, or put Apple's A/UX Unix on one of your
- Macs, and make it a Unix print server. We do it the latter way, but
- then we already had A/UX.
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
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