NEXT Color Printer find

On 30 Dec 2001 00:13:27 -0500, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote: #Very interesting. Mine definitely has only 2 50-pin Centronics ports. #The serial number is 00000078, and is an N2004. What makes this even #more interesting is that NeXT's didn't have a parallel port (that I know #of). # #There's an easy way to test if a) That's a parallel port, and b) it has #an on-board PostScript processor. Just connect it to a PC and send some #PostScript to the printer. That would make a nice inexpensive #PostScript color printer if this works, as ink is still available. # Ok, here's the report. The printer works, and runs the self-test (in full color). Still has ink! The 36-pin port is a parallel port, and does receive data from the PC. You select from SCSI/Parallel on an LCD menu on the printer. The printer did not understand PostScript. However, on the printer, there are a number of different "Modes" and other options that are selectable, and without a manual, it isn't clear what they do. One could be PostScript, I'll have to do some more tests. But plain ascii sent from the PC worked fine. Louis