Re: IIGS and Laserwriter IISC

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <35A21AD6.DA531663@vub.ac.be>,
Ing. Jansen Robert <rjansen@vub.ac.be> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect a LaserWriter IISC
>(the one with the SCSI interfaces and NO PostScript) to a IIGS ?

   That should have Postscript on the printer, but the GS Laserwriter
software is only really set up to write to a (more-or-less) postscript
file on disk or communicate out over Appletalk. Sure, Appletalk isn't
that fast, especially for huge print jobs, but using a *network*
communication setup like Ethernet for faster communications really
didn't seem to occur to you-know-who until much later. 

   You'd really have to do a lot of work to get the Postscript driver
to talk to a scsi device, as well as provide a SCSI driver to make
things work. Good luck trying to get documentation on how to talk to
that printer-- like the Apple II, I'd expect Apple to have forgotten
that they ever made such a thing.

Nathan Mates
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