Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. It probably can't go that fast. Try 9600 baud first, then 19200. Unless Apple was still totally nuts back then, it should also be 8N1, but who knows? Turn the printer off between tests to

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: I am trying to make use of an Apple Stylewriter (a rebadged Canon BubbleJet) and am stuck. Here's one: stylps:\ :lp=/dev/stylewriter:sd=/var/spool/stylps:\ :px#3060:py#3960:sh:sf:rw:\ :if=/usr/local/sbin/stylps:\

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: You should probably set the baud rate and communications parameters in there. See man printcap. OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. Here's an example of what I am doing: [/usr/home/paul/src/stylewriter]::

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
paul beard wrote: I've got the paper handbook 3/e open here and it gets me tantalizingly close. If I do anything to lpr (kill it or dequeue an job with lprm) the printer does it's paper-feeding dance. Still missing something, though. and as it turns out Windows can't do anything with it

Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-14 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. It probably can't go that fast. Try 9600 baud first, then 19200. Unless Apple was still totally nuts back then, it should also be 8N1, but who knows? Turn the printer

serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter)

2002-11-13 Thread paul beard
I am trying to make use of an Apple Stylewriter (a rebadged Canon BubbleJet) and am stuck. I have a driver that I know works (I tried it on another machine) but I am having trouble setting the output to be written to the serial port. I know there is some communication there as I hear some