Janus; Printing to AppleTalk LaserWriter on MacIvory?

[Doug Evans <DE%phoenix.sch.symbolics.com@RELAY.CS.NET>]

    Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 13:23 EDT
    From: rjb1%vega%gte.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Richard J Brandau)


    First, Janus:  I recently downloaded this little public-domain Mac
    program from Usenet, and with modest hacking through the wilds of
    SYS:HARDCOPY;LGP2, I was able to get it to turn my Mac SE's serial port
    into a gateway from our Symbolics print spooler to our AppleTalk
    LaserWriter.  I mention this because you might want to do something
    similar, in order to get the use of an extra printer.

    But while I was doing this, I was thinking how stupid the whole
    arrangement was, considering that we have a couple MacIvories.  Why
    can't I arrange to print from them to an AppleTalk printer?  The manuals
    seem to indicate that the printer has to be connected directly to the
    Mac's serial port.  Has anyone solved this one?  (This seems so simple
    that it may have been covered here before, but I don't find it in my
    archives, so apologies if this is repetitious.)

This is a major item on our agenda.  

Right now, you can print Mac request via AppleTalk but not Genera
requests, or you can switch cables to a serial cable 	and print Genera
requests but not Mac requests.

To get rid of this kludge, we're working to get the Apple printing
protocol to handle our print spooler requests via the printer port using
AppleTalk.  This will hopefully be released as soon as possible in the
next few months.