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From: tjhorton@csri.toronto.edu (Tim Horton)
Subject: Re: A Mac with a laserprinter, anywhere?
Message-ID: <8902100919.AA01797@dixon.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <89Feb9.145955est.38078@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Distribution: ut.general
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 04:19:44 EST

(Pekka Orponen) writes:
>I would like to print out this paper I have written on my home Macintosh.
>Is there a Mac with an attached laserprinter somewhere at this university
>that I could use?

This is a common enough question, so I thought I should post.

1. UTCS micro lab, which *was* at Koffler Center, room 204(?) last year, though
some of that stuff has moved around lately.  Call 978-HELP to find out for sure.
They have both 300 dpi (normal) and 1200 dpi (ultra-high resolution) postscript
printers.

(If it's still where it was, just go up the south stairs to the 3rd floor,
left at the computer store, snake around a bit, and the lab is on your right)

2.  Didn't the SAC office just put together a laserwriter center of some sort?
I saw a few articles on the front of the Varsity.  Call SAC and ask.  It was
going to cost money to use, but supposedly not much.

3.  The Copy Network, 203A College at St. George, 979-COPY, used to charge
$10 to $15 per hour (in 1/4 hour increments) for access through a mac, and
about a buck a page for 300dpi printing.  They also have 1200dpi printing.
I've dealt with them a lot, and they will sometimes help you out quite a bit,
plus they have all sorts of other interesting services, and they're nearby.
But it costs.

Or try the places nearby along College, or just over past Spadina on College.
There's more and more of them around.

4.  There are some macs and printers on one of the upper floors (14th?) of the
Robart's library, at the Center for Computing in Humanities.  I never bothered
to try it.  I think there used to be some difficulty actually using a
laserprinter.

5. Within the comp sci department, it used to be possible to upload postscript
files to the unix network, in order to print them on any of the dept
laserwriters around the dept.  But there were some problems with viruses on
the macs available in the graphics lab, and they've shut down general access.


