[geeks] Printers, Printers, Programming, Terminal Servers, and Writingish

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

legodude at hammycorp.com writes:

>I also want a laser printer that understands postscript and has a 
>network interface. 100baseT would be nice but 100baseT would work. The 
>cheaper the better.

If you've got ethernet between the host & printer, then running
ghostscript on the host works really nicely.

>Third, I need reccomendations on a good terminal server. All I need is 
>like 4+ ports and ethernet connection. Rackmount and internal power 
>supply would be real nice.

My netblazer is really nice. I don't know anything about their
low-end though.

>All the recent talk about formatting languages and my long desire to 
>learn one has sparked my interest but I have no idea which one to 
>learn. Any suggestions for something? I'd really like it if there was a 
>"Introduction to ..." or a tutorial website.

If you're doing single pages (flyers, posters) just use postscript.

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