[rescue] SparcPrinter

[Harri Haataja]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:03:44AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Leslie Connally wrote:
> > 2) More importantly,  inlieu of an sbus parallel port, can I just
> > hang this off an external network print server ala HP JetDirect or
> > Lantronix ?
> Erm, no.  That's neither a regular parallel nor an RS-232 connection
> on the printer.  It connects to a SPARCprinter controller card which
> is an odd marriage between a video card and a printer card.

> > 3) It a PS printer, yes ? or is it some kind of dumb
> > print-engine-in-a-box like an inkjet, mostly run by the computer &
> > special software?
> NeWS[1] or some variant thereof.  Therefore, you need the appropriate
> video/parallel combo card (part #501-1910, Sun Option X1130A) to talk
> to it.

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