From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lp server
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:33:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06647c199cfe93adb59e8751d3c8b3ce@csplan9.rit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430f8881bae449cafa4248a36b13ea4b@quintile.net>
> I am no expert with ghostscript, however it appears there is a driver for
> the Okidata Microline 320. Postscript can be interpreted by ghostscript on
> plan9 and a bitmap of the page is then sent to the printer (rather than ASCII text).
>
> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Okidata-ML_320
>
> Printing via ghostscript works - I use a cannon bubblejet printer on
> plan9, but is it worth the effort supporting such an old printer when
> bubblejets are so cheap these days?
>
> this is my bubblejet devices entry:
> canonbjc240l - - /dev/lpt1data - gs!bjc600+nohead generic nospool - - - -
>
> -Steve
Okay, so it seems I need to recompile ghostscript to get that working... ahh, a
journey of discovery!
The reason I have the dot matrix is that it's so fun ☺ Hard to beat accordion
paper and that dot-matrix screech!
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-20 2:34 john
2007-10-20 3:58 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-10-23 0:40 ` john
2007-10-23 7:45 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-23 13:33 ` john [this message]
2007-10-23 13:43 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-24 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-23 2:23 ` john
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