[WinMac] Re: Color Laser Printer to Work with 7200 LAN

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:18:24 -0400

        Dear Geoff,

        You can either hook up the CLJ 5M to the parallel port of a PC if you have
just one; to the parallel port of an NT box if you want to share the
printer to a network of 95/98/NT PC's (with NT/Workstation) and Macs (with
NT/Server with Services For Macintosh installed).

        You can also use HP's JetDirect software to capture the ethernet port on
the printer.

        Lastly, if you have an NT/Server with SFM you can also use Adobe's AdobePS
print driver, set up the printer and share it, and do NOT capture the
printer when offered. This will allow the most flexibility in that the Macs
can print either directly or through the spooler to the CLJ 5M, allow 9x/NT
clients to spool to the CLJ 5M; plus it provides the bonus of using
AppleTalk's PAP (Printer Access Protocol) for robust, Mac-like printing.

        It's that last part you want to pay attention to: The link between the NT
spooler and the printer itself. If you use NT/Server with SFM enabled
(which also enables the AppleTalk stack) - Even if you don't have any Macs
- you can use AppleTalk's powerful PAP feature for the link between the
spooler and the printer. Otherwise you'll need to use a parallel port cable
(with distance limitations); or lose powerful features by using the
JetDirect software, or worse yet, LPR.

        Yeah, I trash the Macs quite a bit... But there actually *are* a few
things that I like, such as the PostScript printing via AppleTalk. Let's
hope that one nice feature doesn't get Steveified.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 11:41 AM 10/27/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
>>Subject: Re: Color Laser Printer to Work with 7200 LAN
>>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:52:31 -0400
>>
>>
>> OK, here goes: I just rebuilt a Color LaserJet (the predecessor to the
>>Color LaserJet 5 and Color LaserJet 5M) printer(s). Many - but not every -
>>part & supply are common amongst these 3 printers... This particular Color
>>LaserJet was put in service again right next to a CLJ 5M!
>>
>> The $435 drum is common, as is the $200 fuser assembly. Both are
>>good for
>>~40,000 copies each. Toner, which comes in bottles (instead of more
>>expensive drum/toner cartridge assemblies like that used in the CLJ 4500 &
>>8500) is about $24 apiece.
>>
>> The RAM is common among all 3 printers; and you can upgrade the CLJ and
>>CLJ 5 to the CLJ 5M configuration by adding a PostScript SIMM, more RAM
>>(which you'll need anyway) and a J2552A MIO card (10Base-T, 10Base-2, and
>>LocalTalk); or a 100Base-TX MIO card.
>
>
>We have a CLJ 5M which the above-mentioned Jetdirect card fitted, at
>present it is printed to by Macs only using Appletalk/ethernet, if we
>wanted to print to it from PCs using the same ethernet what would we need
>to do, just put the correct drivers on the PC/print server or what?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Geoff Cross
>ICRF Leeds
>Macintosh Computer Support

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