Laser Printer for Amiga
20-Aug-93 00:08:40
Sb: #110813-Laser Printer for Amiga
Fm: Jonathan Hirschman 70274,2526
To: Dominick J. Fontana 74766,2154
Dominick,
Basically, the laser is most likely either Postscript or HP. I think
that you might be better off with Postscript, especially with the CBM
Postscript driver. I don't think that font handling on HP's is very
good on the Amiga, but I am not speaking from experience.
I have a LaserWriter II NTX hooked up to my Amiga, via a port
switching device called a Buffalo Box. It allows my PC and Amiga to
alternatively access both my modem and my printer. This is handy,
since the Amiga only has one serial port. I print mostly graphics,
and some Propage. Don't do much WP on the Amiga anymore – its hard
to beat Word on the clone, under Windows.
If its hooked up to a Mac, its almost definitely Postscript, and if
its an Apple branded printer, please consider that none of their
lasers have parallel ports.
Lastly…it could be a Quickdraw printer (read: Mac only). If this is
the case, don't spend anything on it, since it'll be useless to you.
I'll check my E-mail tomorrow, so as soon as you find out, contact me. I
can give you better advice when I know what it is.
//Jonathan,
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