11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
8:17 a.m.
George Currie wrote:
True, sounds like Sridhar may have the same type of printer that I do.
It's a dye sublimation printer, what's cool about it (at least mine is
this way) is that it has a Sun SparcStation built into the printer! It
has parallel, scsi, and ethernet interfaces. It was designed to print
graphics images so you'd always be chunking large files over to it. It
actually worked quite well and very good scaling algorithms (I have
printouts from my old <1megapixel camera that look as good printed 6x8
as many modern setups (does a very respectable job at 8.6x11 as well).
I believe mine have a SparcStation Classic internally. You can hook up
a terminal to it's serial port and log into the Sparc.
Mine doesn't have parallel or ethernet and uses software running Linux
as an outboard controller (the software runs on the aforementioned
PS/2), but the concept is similar.
Peace... Sridhar
Wow! A SCSI *printer*?! What on Earth is that?
It wasn't a odd choice in pre-USB, pre-Firewire prehistory. If you
need to move lots of data to a raster printer, SCSI was an option.