RE: HP Deskwriter C
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I've already tried the serial dump, and all I get is a giant black
line (or rather, several). I didn't think about the LocalTalk concept.
Yes, it does show up in Chooser under MacOS, but only under the
directly attached port, not the Networked version. Incidentally, I've
had the serial port set to both 9600 (standard Mac serial rate) and
57600 (the Localtalk Rate, IIRC), with the same black results.
Supposedly, people have gotten them working under MacBSD, with gs and
the standard DeskJet driver, but I haven't been able to replicate
their results using similar parameters under Debian.
Thanks,
JDM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schmitz [mailto:schmitz@schmitzm.hip.berkeley.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, 27 March, 1999 1:20 PM
> To: Anders Hammarquist
> Cc: Michael Schmitz; Ares; debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: HP Deskwriter C
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Anders Hammarquist
> wrote: > > What kind of printer is that? Tried changing the
> serial speed or other > > serial > > parameters? Tried to ask the
> manufacturer for technical documentation? HP > > used > > to have
> good technical manuals for their printers. > > I believe the
> Deskwriter is the same as the Deskjet, except for LocalTalk >
> support. Try dumping the output from the ghostscript deskjet
> driver to the > serial port and see if you get anything useful.
> A DeskJet can print straight ASCII, so there gotta be another
> difference. Unless the printer expects LocalTalk on the serial
> port and can't handle either lower speed or data not
> encapsulated in LocalTalk packets. In the latter case, I'd
> expect it to print nothing at all. Linux doesn't do LocalTalk,
> period. Question to the original poster: did you change the
> serial speed to 38400 baud or less, and is this printer using
> LocalTalk protocol (i.e. shows up as printer in the Chooser on a
> LocalTalk network)? Michael
>
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