Re: Laser printer - all ours!

Chris Keane - Chief ENS Pointyhead (Chris.Keane@nospam.aus.sun.com)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 10:45:34 +1000

To answer those questions, I won't know what sort of printer it is until
it arrives. I suspect that it isn't a NeWSprinter 20. More likely than not
it's just a normal EOL'ed SPARCprinter.

However, if that's the case it raises the question of what we're going to
use to drive it (it requires the print server to have an Sbus for the
video imaging card, which rules out ftoomsh). Does anyone have any ideas
or am I going to have to part with a 4/60 to drive it?

If it IS a SPARCprinter, it takes "normal" (or at least "available") Xerox
replacement bits. You should be aware that printer consumables are at least
moderately hideously expensive, so we may wish to implement printer accounting
and charge a fixed number of cents per page.

That's my $0.02 worth, even though I didn't have to print it.

Christofu.