[rescue] the folly of getting a sparcprinter 1 running fro scratch

[Robert Toegel]

I think the old sparcprinter was not a printer in today's sense but
actually was more of a "raster" printer IIRC.  So essentially it acted like
doing a screen dump rather than sending something to a printer.  I have one
but never really got it to work correctly.  Tried on a SS20 but, obviously,
didn't have it set up properly.

Bob

On Sun, Sep 1, 2019, 18:38 Dennis Grevenstein <dennis.grevenstein at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> john wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chase, You need the S-Bus card, and a cable, and NewsPrint
> > and a password and a Sparcstation which will run SunOS 4.1.3 or
> > 4.1.4 or onje of the very early Solarises.
>
> I remember using a SPARCprinter around 1999/2000. I am very
> sure that I used an SS2 running Solaris 2.6. The key to getting
> this working was a patched ghostscript version. I donb t have
> that anymore unfortunately.
> The printer was pretty decent back then, but I guess you really
> have to be into running old printers, given the abundance of
> more modern laser printers you can pick up so often.
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