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

[Doug McIntyre]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 08:52:30PM -0700, Thomas Pelki wrote:
> if you need the SPARCprinter sbus card and the Long cable, send me a PM, I
> got one that came with my SparcCenter 2000e. I just don't have the printer
> itself.

I should have as well a SPARCprinter 1 SBUS card, the cables, and I do have a
SPARCprinter as well that hasn't made its way to the scrappers yet. I might have
to dig deep in the cage-o-junk for that one. 

I do have a copy of NeWSPrint 2.0 somewhere, with docs and box.
It was a hog & didn't run well at all on any SBUS machine I put it on.
IIRC, it also barfed on some legit postscript. 

I had much better results building ghostscript with the SPARCprinter
driver and making a print chain out of it. I suppose those
instructions are vanishing off the Internet, although from what I
remember it wasn't that hard. Ah, here are some
http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/SPARC.html

It was much worse getting GCC built for the system I was using at the
time so that ghostscript could get built.

It was a standard Canon print engine, so it took canon toner.
Although as being a standard Canon 1st gen 300dpi laser printer engine, it
wasn't the fastest or best resolution.