I am finally coming back around to this. I bought a retroprinter a year
and half ago or so and shelved it out of frustration. Now, I know a lot
more about this sorta stuff and so I pulled it out, updated the software
to latest and tried to get it working.
The PI prints a test page fine, but it won't print anything I send it
from the M100. After hours of troubleshooting, it appears that whatever
codes the pi is sending aren't DMP-15, EPSON ESC/P or Plain Text
codes... When I do llist, I see the data coming across to the
retroprinter and have set up a file to capture, but I can't find
anything that will make sense of the data.
Here's a sample:
10 PRMN\ "lmllo"
1= RMS\ORM =0>NORM=0\O1>RMALR,M-,Q,,M-,C,,M,0-,C,,M,1->CL,M-=0>NM\\M
20 M=0
2= O=0>OOS]B<0
30 OOS]B<=
It looks like reasonably valid data and not complete gibberish, but who
am I to judge. Is it one of:
Epson ESC/P 9 Pin - didn't work, when I tried it
Epson ESC/P 24/48 Pin
HP Printer (PCL3 or PCL5)
HP Plotter (HP-GL)
IBM ProPrinter
Plain Text- didn't work, when I tried it
Postscript
Printronix-P Series
Printronix-S Series
Seiko QT-2100P
Siemens PT-88
Apple Image Writer II
Seiko STP
Star Micronics SP700
Tandy DMP-105- didn't work, when I tried it
Help and thank you.
