Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!gvax.cs.cornell.edu!jqj
From: jqj@GVAX.CS.CORNELL.EDU (J Q Johnson)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Xerox 4045 as a networked printer
Message-ID: <8511121212.AA16310@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 07:12:13 EST
Article-I.D.: gvax.8511121212.AA16310
Posted: Tue Nov 12 07:12:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:42:03 EST
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 17
Approved: laser-lovers@ucbvax.berkeley.edu

If you want to have a 4045 printer on your network (with Interpress)
you need to buy a Xerox T22 processor as the server, plus the appropriate
software.  That pushes the cost up to only a bit less than an 8044.
I haven't seen pricing data from Xerox yet, but my estimate is that
the total system will cost about $10-13K including printer.

In that configuration it's a nice machine, but it will probably have 
problems competing with a Laserwriter or networked Imagen except in 
marketplaces that need Interpress (Adobe, where's that Interpress to 
Postscript translator?) or a standalone XNS-based server.

Related question:

If one wants to hook a Laserwriter to an Ethernet as a print server/spooler,
(let's say running TCP/IP and some arbitrary print spooling protocol) what's
the most cost-effective way to do it (assuming you don't have a spare Unix 
machine handy)?