I know it's not a common thing to do these days but I'm trying to configure an ancient dataproducts line printer with yast. I'm using a centronics-to-dataproducts adapter and connecting it to the parallel port. I actually have this config working on 8.2. To get it to work on 8.2, in yast2 I selected UNKNOWN for the manufacture and generic-other for the model. Now I'm trying to do the same thing on a 9.0 box but I don't have the same selections to choose from. I have a GENERIC under the mfgr but under that I have no generic-other to choose from. It appears that everything is for postscript, pcl, etc... How do I configure this "dumb" printer with yast in SuSE 9.0? Thanks Mark
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:26, Mark Hounschell wrote:
I know it's not a common thing to do these days but I'm trying to configure an ancient dataproducts line printer with yast. I'm using a centronics-to-dataproducts adapter and connecting it to the parallel port. I actually have this config working on 8.2. To get it to work on 8.2, in yast2 I selected UNKNOWN for the manufacture and generic-other for the model. Now I'm trying to do the same thing on a 9.0 box but I don't have the same selections to choose from. I have a GENERIC under the mfgr but under that I have no generic-other to choose from. It appears that everything is for postscript, pcl, etc... How do I configure this "dumb" printer with yast in SuSE 9.0?
Thanks Mark
I have found a good source for cups drivers at www.easysw.com. That's tha company that wrote the cups software and they have 1000's of drivers on their site. http://www.easysw.com ftp://ftp2.easysw.com/pub/print for the drivers -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
Kenneth Schneider wrote: How do I configure this "dumb" printer with yast in SuSE 9.0?
Thanks Mark
I have found a good source for cups drivers at www.easysw.com. That's tha company that wrote the cups software and they have 1000's of drivers on their site.
ftp://ftp2.easysw.com/pub/print for the drivers
Do I really need a cups driver for this type of printer? I thought more that I needed the ability to configure it without a "driver". I thought the way I configured it in SuSE 8.2 basically was a raw print cue and thus needed no driver. These printers only print the ascii char set. The things I need to print on this printer can be printed with just a cat file > /dev/lp0. It seems to me that my problem is more of a yast problem in that it no longer offers me this type of configuration. ???? Regards Mark
Hello, On Jan 26 17:02 Mark Hounschell wrote (shortened):
How do I configure this "dumb" printer with yast in SuSE 9.0? ... I needed the ability to configure it without a "driver". I thought the way I configured it in SuSE 8.2 basically was a raw print cue
Note the selection regarding with or without filtering in YaST. Regarding a "raw" queue: See the CUPS Software Users Manual "Raw or Unfiltered Output" or create a "raw" queue: If "raw" means "100% raw" (i.e. no filtering at all) then the command lpadmin -p QUEUE -v DeviceURI -E creates a "100% raw" queue. This is the same as YaST does when it set up a queue without filtering. But if "raw" means in fact "do only some trivial filtering" (e.g. adding a formfeed character at the end of each print job or do some trivial recoding of plain text like NL->CR+NL conversion) then you should set up the queue with a so called "System V style interface script" (see "man lpadmin"). For more and detailed information see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/06/jsmeix_print-cups-filters.html Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX AG, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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