Re: deskwriter driver, or set up
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 21:16:01 -0300, Michael Hackett composed:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:26:21 -0400
> simon.raven@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> > i've also gone to lok around at linuxprinting.org, and they don't have
> > a driver for deskwriter, only deskjets - deskjets IIRC use PS, and the
> > printer i have is just a serial printer. i've also tried playing
> > around with the serial ports settings, and still no output, not even
> > garbage.
>
> As Brad said, most DeskJets use PCL or straight ASCII, not PS.
> DeskWriters were just relabelled DeskJets with serial/LocalTalk ports
> instead of parallel.
>
> I've never actually tried using my old DeskWriter from Linux, but from
> messing around with it way back when, I know that the trick is that the
> serial port is fixed at 57600 baud. Try setting the serial port to this
> speed and dump some text to the port -- you should see something.
> Probably any DeskJet filters will work fine for graphical output.
awesome. :). like i said before, i'll give it a whirl. (yippee!)
simon
>
> -- Michael
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