[SuSE Linux] An old printer
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 - 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>>
Maurizio Firmani wrote:
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.
You should be able to use it as a plain old text-mode printer, with no graphics. Try " cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp1 " that will work as root, then you can chmod /dev/lp1 to give users rights. You could also try to set up the print queue, with the printer as a generic dos-mode printer. - 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>>
IBM Proprinter III Guess what ! the Proprinter has a driver in ghostscript. So a recompile of ghostscript and you can print graphics easy. I have an even older printer. Star np-10 which uses the proprinter driver. So you can try some of the epson drivers. Is the proprinter 9 pin or 24 ? And the printer is a dot matrix. <A HREF="http://theverge.com"><A HREF="http://theverge.com</A">http://theverge.com</A</A>> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, zentara wrote:
Maurizio Firmani wrote:
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.
You should be able to use it as a plain old text-mode printer, with no graphics.
Try " cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp1 "
that will work as root, then you can chmod /dev/lp1 to give users rights.
You could also try to set up the print queue, with the printer as a generic dos-mode printer. - 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>>
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Try " cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp1 " lpr filename.txt should do
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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>>
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Maurizio Firmani wrote:
Hi all, I have this old printer IBM Proprinter III
ProPrinters were the printer of choice in the early years (i don't know the english
word for a printer which is not inkjet nor laserjet nor bubblejet...)
dot matrix
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?
Proprinters were designed for "text" world before that existed before windows - little or no configuration is necesary except for the printcap setup (and you can probably `cat <filename.txt> > /dev/lp1' without even setting up the printcap..) and the BEST NEWS is... you can still find printer ribbons PS you'll need ghostscript for postscript (but you probably knew that..) - 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>>
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