Is printing broke on sparc ?
"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <[email protected]>:
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.. ie: cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0 (or /dev/par0) gets me :/c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn
s eehpo o-.ROLPR0 roif{\=sl:x
/p:ao/lr
which is where it rolls off the paper .
printer is a DECLaser 2200 . I have the PostScript option card for it , but when it is installed -notthing- gets output so I tried the above experiment without it installed . With the option installed the display shows 'PS Waiting' Then shortly 'PS Processing' then 'PS Ready' . This happens whether I cat .ps files or not . I beleive that something is garbling the data being sent .
I have the 5100 printer - It is expecting PCL when the PS option is not set. With it set, it only prints postscript.
What I did was to pass the data through enscript/nenscript to convert to postscript. Then I had no problems at all.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
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