Apple Laserwriter the same as Sun Laserwriter

[Christopher Lott]

Hi,

About 2 years or so ago, I hooked an Apple LW to a Sun 2/50, using the
Adobe Transcript package, and it worked _great_.  When I asked Sun Support
about it (don't remember why I was calling, hm) they said that their
laserWriter was just the Apple laserWriter with a new logo.  

It's a straight postScript printer, no matter the logo on the outside.
Transcript just puts out straight ps code, so it should not be a problem.

Some folks have posted instructions for hooking a sun to a lw; here's what
I have:  [[ The original message is in volume 5 number 60.  I have removed
all but the essentials.  --wnl ]]

> From:    parns!harker at sun.UUCP (Robert Harker, all around good guy)
> Subject: Re: sun laserwriter help
> 
> ...do the install on
> the server as if the LaserWriter was locally installed on the server.
> Then when the install is complete you copy the printcap file generated for
> the server to the client with the LaserWriter attached, deleting any bogus
> entries for other printers.  On the client you also link the device that
> the Laserwriter is attached to to /dev/lw...   Make sure that the server
> has an entry for the
> LaserWriter that is remote printer entry, not a local printer entry, ie:
> 
>         lw|ps|postscript|PostScript:\
>                 :lp=:\
>                 :rm=client:\
>                 :rp=lw:\
>                 :sd=/usr/spool/lw:

cml
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