Color Printers for SGI's (CLC500 someone?)

[David Lau-Kee]

olson at anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>In <1991May22.115034.3987 at ifi.unizh.ch> meyer at ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer) writes:

>| I wonder if anybody got one of these fancy Color Laser Copiers CLC500 from
>| Canon and managed it to connect it to an Iris using the SCSI interface?
>| Are there any drivers available, either public domain or commercial?
>| Any help will be appreciated.
>| 

>I haven't heard anything about it even having a scsi interface,
>but we have one on loan with the gpib interface.  It has
>VERY impressive quality (of course, it is a tad bit expensive).

>The simple minded driver we have uses very little gpib stuff,
>so assuming the scsi interface is (conceptually) at all similar
>to the gpib, it shouldn't be too much work to write a driver
>using the ds generic scsi driver.

You can get it with a SCSI interface.  There is a SCSI driver around for the
Sun 4, but from what I've seen it wouldn't be *too* nasty to write one for
an Iris.  What you might want to do is to contact your local CLC marketing
people and tell them you will buy one with the SCSI if they get a driver
written... the marketing-techsupport feedback at Canon is pretty efficient. 

BTW: you can also get the CLC with something called the PS-IPU (the
PostScript Image Processing Unit), which will take Level 2 (I believe)
PostScript and image that (perhaps not that useful on a SGI... and in any
case, for very, very, very good quality as opposed to very, very good
quality, I feel you'd best go for the SCSI / GPIB connexion and throw
image data at it).

David

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