Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:25:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: Mike Porter <mike.porter@xrxgsn.com> Cc: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108122318300.94319-100000@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <024501c12393$12e13bc0$0300a8c0@laptop>
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Mike Porter wrote: > is it possible (having looked over your dmesg and Mike Meyer's dmesg and > noting no differences in the relevant areas, except the IRQ #) that the > PCL3/HP500 emulation only works over the parallel port interface? I guess > this would tend to be disproved by the fact that it works under OS/2 without > the driver. I don't know enough about OS/2 to know if what you are doing > really would bypass the driver, I'll take your word for that. Are you > running OS/2 on the same machine under a dual boot scenario, or is this two The only real test is to take a file printed on windows for the HP500 printer. Then, from the bsd os, send that file to the z51 printer (you choose the port) and see if it prints. I won't say it will not work, but I would be surprised if it did. ..I'll tell you why. The chip on the Z51 is very limited. There is not enough room to have an HP500 translater in the hardware. The only way it could read HP500 is if the commands were NPA commands or identical to the lexmark file format. I would also like to see a copy of the file. I can quickly tell you if it is in lexmark format. Also, the port you are sending the file to should not matter. We 'blasted' files to lexmark printers from various OS's all the time, both parallel and USB ports, with no problems. Jim ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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