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Network printing from PC's???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dane Spearing)
Tue Oct 18 19:19:22 1994
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 16:04:40 -0700
From: Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
We're having a little printing problem here at Stanford:
Stanford is (was) predominantly a Macintosh-based campus, and
most of our network services are based around that platform,
including printing. A number of students are now coming in with
their own PC machines and want to be able to print to our public
printers. Unfortunately, the majority of our public printer are
AppleTalk-based. Is there any way for a PC (running, say, Windows)
to print to an AppleTalk printer over the network?
(Most of the network at Stanford is ethernet -- a mix of 10baseT
and ThinNet. So hooking up to the media isn't a problem. How
do we get the PC's to see/print to the AppleTalk printers.)
The more general question is:
How do PC's in general print to network printers? (i.e. - printers
that are not directly attached to the computer). We have little
experience with PC printing.
Many thanks!
Dane Spearing --- Residential Computing --- Stanford University
dane@rescomp.stanford.edu -- (415) 723-4800
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~dane/dane.html
