From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44CEB7C9.6050904@exemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:09:13 +1000 From: John Boutland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20060120 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] HP Laserjet III printer References: <44CD9212.4050208@exemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 95362c10-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Many thanks. Laserjet III now printing quite happily. John Russ Cox 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 > > > In /sys/lib/lp/devices, you should be able to start with > the hpdeskjet entry, maybe rename it, and then > change the gs!cdj670 to gs!ljet3. Then you should > be all set (using lp -dhpdeskjet or whatever new name > you chose). > > Russ > >