[ale] Serial Printers/Plotters

[Bob Kruger]

Chris;

I have tried to edit by hand. Â In fact, that is how I normally do my printcaps.
 

Unfortunately, nothing I have come up with works. Â I am hoping that someone
who has a good printcap for a serial printer or plotter will share the extract
with me here... :-).

Bob

Christopher Fowler wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid20030617013112.GA6161 at moses.outpostsentinel.com">
  On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:26:05PM -0400, Bob Kruger wrote:
  
  
    Anyone have any good hints on setting up a linux printcap for a serial 
printer/plotter?  I have an old but reliable HP Draftmaster II that I 
just moved from a W98 machine to a linux box.  The serial port is 
already configured.  If I generate a plot file from Autocad, I can run 
plots by doing the following:

cat plotfile.plt >> /dev/ttyS1

All attempts at configuring printcap to handle this have failed.

Any tips or ideas?
    
  
  
You really ought to skip printtool and edit /etc/printcap by hand.
Try to copy an entry that is there and create a very simply filter.

--- Cut ---
#!/bin/sh

cat -
--- Cut ---

This will assume that you will only be printing plot files.  You could
use printtool to setup a raw printer.  That should work too.




  
  
    Bob

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