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

[Andrew Jones]

It was a Raster printer in the most literal sense.

All the "brains" were on the SBus card, and the signal between the card and
the printer was essentially a video signal, to drive the laser directly.


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On Sunday, September 1, 2019 9:03 PM, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue