From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] lp server
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710230643n47857e3eg7a5c1ad1853798b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06647c199cfe93adb59e8751d3c8b3ce@csplan9.rit.edu>
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On 10/23/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
Screech or Preeow! As Strongbad would say.... ☺
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 13:43 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
2007-10-23 13:43 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-10-24 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-23 2:23 ` john
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