[SunRescue] How does one hook up old Postscript PSJet+"M" printer to sun3
BSD Bob
bsdbob at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu
Fri Aug 27 09:11:03 CDT 1999
For the past couple of evenings I have been playing with my old SunOS-3.5
Sun 3/110 box trying to get it to print to a postscript laserjet I (a
NCR badged printer with a brand name PSJet+"M" logo on it. I can get
it to talk LJ+ emulation mode with no flow control, but I can't get it
to talk PS in any way shape or form. Yet, the silly printer works fine
printing on my dos box serial port. I have a proper crlf filter in
the printcap, and an RS-232 tester dongle has data going through correctly.
It has gotta be something minor, but I can't exactly ferret it out, yet.
Since it prints fine on dos (at least dos boxes are still good for stupid
level testing.....(:+\\.....), I am beginning to suspect the postscript
header file, or possibly the end of the file. It passes the data, but
it seems to be going into /dev/null inside the printer.
Close, but not quite, yet.....
Any suggestions or whatever are appreciated.
Thanks
Bob
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