[GLLUG] Win/Linux/NeXT Printer sharing

[Sean]

What Paul said. =)  According to what I read the print engine was made by 
canon and did PS -> bitmap translations in software. You might check to 
see if ghostscript will handle it or not and then you can use LPRng, CUPS, 
etc to use the LPR protocal. The NeXTStep software was rather good though. 

The connection was supposedly a proprietary 9-pin serial, but I would
highly suspect that to be a 9-pin RS-422(442?) connection like the Macs at
the time used for printing and networking (since im probably going to be
corrected anyway I believe printing actually used 8-pins ). 

But I will note this is what i yanked off the net in a very short time and 
have basiclaly no knowledge of NextStep hardware/software first hand. 

Sean 



On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Melson, Paul wrote:

> Should be very doable with the stock NeXTStep npd (which, if I remember
> correctly, is in /usr/lib/NextPrinter.  Also, I'm not a huge
> NeXT/OpenStep guy, but something makes me think you might need
> Developers' Edition to get npd?  Dunno why...)  The trick is probably
> going to be finding a printcap entry for your printer if it's not
> already in there.  I think the N2000 is a Motorola product, but I have
> no idea what other models it might correspond to.  Good luck!
> 
> PaulM
> 
> PS - This goes without saying, but don't give this box a publicly
> accessible IP address.  There are known root-level vulnerabilities
> associated with early versions of npd.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hoort [mailto:hoortbri@msu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:02 PM
> To: GLLUG Post
> Subject: [GLLUG] Win/Linux/NeXT Printer sharing
> 
> 
> For those NeXT dorks out there:
> 
> Is it possible to share a NeXT N2000 laser to a GNU/Linux box? Windows?
> I'd 
> like to set one up as a network laser printer.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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