I have two next laser printers..I thought they were just ho laser jet II's with an adapter On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 1:30 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 06/16/2018 04:24 PM, Thomas Fuchs via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi everybody!
I’ve a NeXTstation computer that is hooked up to my local home network. I wonder if there’s a piece of software (for Mac ideally) that can act as a printing server for it bridging to printers connected to the Mac (directly or LAN).
(Essentially emulate a NeXT printer so the NeXT machine can print on a modern printer.)
It should be able to talk to any civilized printer, i.e. any networked Postscript printer that speaks the standard LPR/LPD protocol. Just set it up as a network printer. No Mac required.
Unless you mean something to connect to the NeXT's printer port. That's a virtual impossibility; that's a direct video and timing output interface that drives a fairly dumb controller within the NeXT laser printer. The Postscript interpretation, rasterization, etc are all done by the display subsystem in the computer, not the printer.
-Dave
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