[Sunhelp] Printer Companies

[George Thiruvathukal]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> 
> Get a decent laser printer from Best Buy, and hook it up to the PC.  Use
> lpr's capability to print on another host running lpd to print from the
> Sun.  It might help to have the same lpr software under Solaris and Linux;
> I like to use LPRng.  I can find the URL for that if you have trouble
> locating it.

You don't even need to fool around with netatalk on Linux to support the
Mac. MacOS 8.5 and higher includes a program called the "Desktop Printer
Utility" (or something like that) which can connect to LPR printers.

The hard part is the $500 budget. It would be much easier to set up if you
have a PostScript printer. Though I suppose Ghostscript might fix that.

If you want a color inkjet, look into the Epson Stylus 900 series. There's
a Postscript upgrade available. And it seems to be fairly inexpensive.

Cheers,

George