David wrote:
>
> It's an Asante ... completely dumb.. not addressable to the best of my
> knowledge. It takes ethernet in and apple localtalk out to the printer's
> localtalk port. The macintoshes on my network see the printer as an
> ethernet postscript printer which has an appletalk address.
The last Ashante I played with was only IPX and had no TCP/IP (I didn't
take in whether it talked localtalk to Macs). That was a cigarette box
size and it plugged into the parallel port.
>
> The printer itself also has parallel ports, but the manual doesn't discuss
> the concept of a mac and pc using the same printer.
If the parallel port is free, a similar box that talks (tcp/ip, ipx,
netbeui) will cost from $110 upwards and allow your linux box to print
to the printer.
I'm highly biased towards the Axis brand in printer servers.
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