Re: How to connect a Postscript-Printer to the serial Port the GS?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 25 Apr 1999 03:28:22 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>"news.uni-freiburg.de" <reesthil@uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to connect a Postscript-Printer (Kyocera FS800) t the serial
>>Port of the GS. The Kyocera-Driver only support Apple-Talk. Does anyone
>>know something about a driver for the serial-port? I know, there are some
>>Hardware-solutions out there, but they are to expensive, i want to make it
>>cheap...
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestion !
>
>Just get a serial printer cable.  You can AppleTalk through the serial
>cable.  The catch is that if you install the printer this way, you basically
>take up its port (with phone-net, you can daisychain something else).

Huh?  Did this guy actually post two almost identical messages?  One
about hooking up this printer to a Mac and the other about hooking it
up to a IIgs?  I'm confused.

At any rate, there are no printer drivers for the Apple IIgs that
support printing over an AppleTalk network that I'm aware of.  The
only drivers I know of all require a Direct Connect to the printer.

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