29 Dec
2001
29 Dec
'01
3:13 p.m.
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 22:54, Louis Schulman wrote:
Well, you are mistaken about something. This printer
has _three_ Centronics ports, two are SCSI, and the
other is smaller, the size of a parallel port. My theory is that this is the difference
between a Model 2004,
which is documented in web literature, and Model 2005, of which there may have been few
examples (since
this one is evidently number 17).
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.
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
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#On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 20:34, Louis Schulman wrote:
#> Today I picked up a NEXT Color Printer in a thrift shop. From what I have found,
it is a PostScript color
#> printer using a Cannon Bubblejet engine, with a SCSI interface (altough it appears
to have a standard
LPT
#> Centronics interface as well). It is Model N2005. It has the extremely
interesting serial number of
#> ACS-00000017.
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#> The machine, aside from being dusty, is like new.
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#> I don't have a NEXT system, and I have not tried hooking it up to my PC (yet).
Does anyone know if this
will
#> work (using a generic PS driver)?
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#> In any event, if this is the NEXT item on your list to complete your NEXT system, I
would be happy to
#> discuss a deal.
#>
#> Louis
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