Maurizio Firmani <maurizio@adriatico.prisma.rm.cnr.it> writes:
Hi all, I have this old printer IBM Proprinter III (i don't know the english word for a printer which is not inkjet nor laserjet nor bubblejet...) and I would like to use it to print the source of my programs. How can I configure the printer device in order to use it? YaST seems to manage only "more evolute" printers. Any help would be very appreciated.
Maurizio
I haven't tried this myself, but I think you want to select in YaST: FREEDEF Free definition of driver name and then enter ibmpro (If you type "gs -h" at the command line, gs gives a list of supported printer drivers) If YaST does not work when you use ibmpro, you may be forced to configure it for some make believe printer type, then edit the file that Yast creates in /etc/apsfilterrc.<gs_device_name> and replace all the gs -sDEVICE=xyz with gs -sDEVICE=ibmpro Where ever they occur (that probably won't be necessary). If that still does not work you might need to hack at the gs source to get it to work (I've had to do this for two ancient printers of my own so far -- if you need help let me know.) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>