Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 09:39:15 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #32 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 3 Oct 94 Volume 7 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: cheap printers Help me with my new sun! Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer (5 msgs) SS1+ and modem +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 20:29:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Di Gioia Subject: cheap printers To: suns_at_home , On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Anthony D'Atri wrote: > >I can't afford a postscript-capable printer. > > Go for a used Apple Laserwriter I. I agree, but I found a LaserWriter 1+ going for $600 (true, it hadn't many hours of use on it). You can get a DEClaser 1152 for $699 (list price) or less. Wouldn't that be a better deal? I'm interested, because I'm in the market for a PS printer myself. Features: PostScript level 2 HP PCL 4 Up to 3 active ports (choice of serial, parallel, and appletalk) One printer serves multiple hosts 2MB RAM upgradeable to 4MB 17 fonts upgradeable to 43 Canon engine 300 x 300 dpi, (enhanced by DECimage) 4 pages/minute upto 6000 pages/month available from DEC Direct, Digital PC catalog, MISCO, and others If anyone knows of a really cheap Laserwriter, I would be interested. ...David Di Gioia | wu2@cts.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:12:18 -0700 From: Joshua Rochester Subject: Help me with my new sun! To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I am a novice sun operator (a unit kinda fell in my lap) and I need some of the pieces that didn't come on my 4/110. 1st) What are the specs on a 4/110? Processor, etc. 2nd) Where can I get a newer version of SunOS? (The thing came with v4.0 on it, and I haven't found a source yet that wants to compile on it. I'd like 4.1.1 at least, but I probably don't want to fork over the $$ for the latest SunOS5/Solaris version directly from sun) 3rd) Where can I get good documentation on how to administer a system like this. I'm a pretty solid unix -user- but I know little about TCP/IP, the /dev directory, and configuation issues like how to set up modem connections, ETC. Thanks in advance, Joshua Rochester joshua@lclark.edu ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 1994 22:35:33 UTC From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer To: (null) This questions reduces simply to choosing among the printers that can be driven by Ghostscript, and choosing price/performance from that list. Ghostscript and a very simple output filter gives you a virtual postscript printer ala NeWSprint (but without as many bugs and with far better performance). I use a DeskJet 520. It's 300 dpi and the output is indistingushable from a 300 dpi laser. It's a tiny bit slower, but not intollerably so. And it's a better deal than a Laserjet run by ghostscript, since the laserjet has to serialize the data collection and printing parts. The Deskjet starts printing immediately upon _starting_ to get data. The laserjet would only print after receiving a whole page of data. The only problem that really rubs me the wrong way is the 1/2 " unprintable margin at the bottom (due to the way inkjets work, you can't run feed rollers over the page above the printhead, so this large margin is unavoidable). But in any case, any printer should be just as good (for the most part) as any other of the same resolution if you're going to have ghostscript control it. You could even get an Imagewriter or an Epson and get a post- script dot-matrix impact printer. THERE's an interesting ocncept! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 20:38:00 -0500 From: Matt Crawford Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer To: jbennett@interrel4.case.syr.edu (Jim Bennett) Maybe you can afford the DEClaser 1152 postscript printer. Thet marked the price way, way down almost a year ago. Otherwise, you can use ghostscript to translate postscript for many kinds of printers. You'll have to get real friendly with your spooling system. __________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@severian.chi.il.us Java Man ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:43:29 -0500 (CDT) From: nrd@lenti.med.umn.edu Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 11:58:00 -0400 >From: jbennett@interrel4.case.syr.edu (Jim Bennett) >Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer >To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > >I have an IPX at home. Yeah, that makes me relatively fortunate, >except that I have little $ left to buy a printer for it. I can't >afford a postscript-capable printer. Something like a Deskjet might >be OK, but I have no experience with these things. The printer needs >to be suitable for manuscripts as well as (zillions) of letters of >recommendations for students. Can those more >knowledgeable offer suggestions about models, drivers, and cables? One option is to get something like a Deskjet and install GNU ghostscript as a postscript driver. You have to compile ghostscript with your printer option (you probably want to check what printers available) and use ghostscript as a output filter. I personally haven't done this yet. But I talked with people who have. Neal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:36:02 -0400 From: jbennett@interrel4.case.syr.edu (Jim Bennett) Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer To: matt@severian.chi.il Thanks for the warning. Consensus is that Deskjet needs parallel port not to become a bottleneck. I've only got a serial port free now. I'll follow up on the Declaser 1152; the Maxwell School is largely switching from Sun to Dec. jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:38:16 -0400 From: jbennett@interrel4.case.syr.edu (Jim Bennett) Subject: Need advice about cheap letter-quality printer To: nrd@lenti.med.umn.edu > From: nrd@lenti.med.umn.edu > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:43:29 -0500 (CDT) > One option is to get something like a Deskjet and install GNU > ghostscript as a postscript driver. You have to compile ghostscript > with your printer option (you probably want to check what printers > available) and use ghostscript as a output filter. That's certainly the consensus. Also, I've been told that only older models have a serial port, and I don't have a parallel one now. I use ghostscript and -view at work, so that part shouldn't be too difficult. > > Neal > Thanks, jim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 21:24:36 -0700 From: hermes@netcom.com (John Doyle) Subject: SS1+ and modem To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I've been having problems getting tip-hardwire working on SS1+, I've set it up on my IPX at work but can't get it working on the SS1+ at home... Also.. If I ever get it working where can I get x/y/z-modem or/and kermit for OS4.1.3 so I can login from a pc using procomm+ or similar and be able to up/download files?? (are sz/rz public domain??) .. thanks ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************