That would be great, but it would take some pretty fast logic. Why not just set up a network printer? It's BSD UNIX, after all, at least on the outside. -Dave On 06/17/2018 09:47 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It might also be possible to make a 'next printer emulator' which pretends to be a Canon SX engine and rasterizes the output into an image file on an SD card... or just acts as a 'bouncer' and automatically forwards the rasterized page image as a bitmap to another printer via lpr over the network.
On 6/17/2018 8:12 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
A plausible term of convenience might be "something superficially similar to an LJ II"... but simply "LJ II" is not. The NeXT printer doesn't even look like an LJ II, so even that is a stretch. We are technical people living in a world of terminological imprecision, linguistic laziness, and a disgusting excess of "convenience". I am a member of the last generation of people to have used NeXT computers when they were current products. Like it or not, we are the custodians of this knowledge.
Bill did not know offhand, and that's fine. We all learn from each other here. In this case, someone (me) did know, and came forth with specific information.
Technical accuracy in the forum archives of subject matter experts should never fall victim to "convenience".
Anyhoo ... I have two such printers, I shall take some time to hook them up to a willing NeXT to see how well they work. Bill
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA