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Re: Network printing from PC's???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peggy Rowland)
Wed Oct 19 10:56:30 1994
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:31:34 -0500
To: Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
From: Peggy.A.Rowland.4@nd.edu (Peggy Rowland)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Dane, here at Notre Dame in the public computing clusters, we have a little
over 208 Macs, over 100 PCs, and about 150 Sparc stations, all printing to
HP Laserwriter IIIsi or 4si. We are using Novell and Appleshare print
services and CAP for the Suns. - Peggy
>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
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