On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 21:16:01 -0300, Michael Hackett composed: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:26:21 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i've also gone to lok around at linuxprinting.org, and they don't have > > a driver for deskwriter, only deskjets - deskjets IIRC use PS, and the > > printer i have is just a serial printer. i've also tried playing > > around with the serial ports settings, and still no output, not even > > garbage. > > As Brad said, most DeskJets use PCL or straight ASCII, not PS. > DeskWriters were just relabelled DeskJets with serial/LocalTalk ports > instead of parallel. > > I've never actually tried using my old DeskWriter from Linux, but from > messing around with it way back when, I know that the trick is that the > serial port is fixed at 57600 baud. Try setting the serial port to this > speed and dump some text to the port -- you should see something. > Probably any DeskJet filters will work fine for graphical output.
awesome. :). like i said before, i'll give it a whirl. (yippee!) simon > > -- Michael
