I just got two colour laser printers from my school which deemed them to be dead and for the skip. Well, not really - after about 2 hours I got one running perfectly by swapping a few components. I'm really happy about this.
Unfortunately, the logic board is a budget version which does not have Postscript or PCL, but some other inferior protocol possibly called GDI (It's a Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2 Desklaser). It prints fine from my PC running XP over ethernet, but of course the Macs can't use it. What I'd like to do is add a second ethernet card to the PC, connect the laser directly, and 'share' the printer to the rest of the network with some sort of postscript interpreter. A piece of software which converts print requests from macs in the postscript language into one which is compatible with the laser, and then prints.
I don't know of any software which does this, though, and wondered if such a thing exists?
If not I guess I'll be upgrading to a CX board with PS support rather soon.
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