From: John Boutland <boutland@exemail.com.au>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] HP Laserjet III printer
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:22:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CD9395.4000804@exemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CD9212.4050208@exemail.com.au>
I should have added that the file I'm using to test this is a C program
created using sam. John
John Boutland wrote:
> Have been trying to get this printer going with no success. Had a look
> at the Luther/Rattan correspondence (Plan9 and laser printer) but
> found no help there. I've fiddled about with /sys/lib/lp/devices
> without success (or even knowing much about what I'm doing!)
> The printer is on the parallel port. If output is directed to pcclone,
> going to /dev/lpt1data, the printer fires up OK but prints lots of
> pages of nothing useful, mainly blank pages preceded by
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0, etc, staggered across the first page. Presumably the
> driver is not correct.
> Any help appreciated.
> John
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 5:16 John Boutland
2006-07-31 5:22 ` John Boutland [this message]
2006-07-31 14:40 ` Russ Cox
2006-08-01 2:09 ` John Boutland
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