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
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:\
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]::
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
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
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