> I am no expert with ghostscript, however it appears there is a driver for
> the Okidata Microline 320. Postscript can be interpreted by ghostscript on
> plan9 and a bitmap of the page is then sent to the printer (rather than ASCII 
> text).
> 
> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Okidata-ML_320
> 
> Printing via ghostscript works - I use a cannon bubblejet printer on
> plan9, but is it worth the effort supporting such an old printer when
> bubblejets are so cheap these days?
> 
> this is my bubblejet devices entry:
>       canonbjc240l - - /dev/lpt1data - gs!bjc600+nohead generic nospool - - - 
> -
> 
> -Steve

Okay, so it seems I need to recompile ghostscript to get that working... ahh, a
journey of discovery!
The reason I have the dot matrix is that it's so fun ☺ Hard to beat accordion
paper and that dot-matrix screech!

John

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