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- Subject: SUMMARY: NEC 95 printer problems
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:31:40 GMT
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- (I tried posting this a while ago, but I'm not sure it made it. If it has,
- y'all have my apologies)
-
- Sometime ago I posted a question regarding printing ASCII files on a NEC
- Silentwriter Model 95 laser printer. I was under the impression that it
- could tell the difference between PostScript files and HP PCL files and
- print accordingly (I didn't buy the thing: I was just told that it could
- distinguish between the two and would I please hook the damn thing up.)
- Anyway, I had no trouble printing PS files, but it would flush plain
- ASCII files. Manually setting the printer to "LJIII emulation" (HP PCL)
- resulted in only the first line of a page of plain ASCII to be printed,
- and in too large a font, so that the line ran off the end of the page.
-
- Thanks to all who replied, it was greatly appreciated!
-
- It was pointed out to me that the 95 does NOT differentiate between PS &
- PCL in the printer. Rather, it comes w/software (print filters) for DOS
- & Macintosh. I was told that Abobe's Transcript and James Clark's "lprps"
- (available on c.sources.unix vol. 31) should fix the problem. I installed
- lprps, and now things work very nicely.
-
- Some details: NEC 95 attached to Sun Sparcstation 1+ (SunOS 4.1.1) over
- serial line at 9600 baud (will probably increase to 38.4K if I get around
- to it.) /etc/printcap as follows:
-
- lpt1|lp|molly-nec|NEC Silentwriter Model 95:\
- :lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/var/spool/molly:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:\
- :br#9600:rw:pl#74:pw#85:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:\
- :sh:mx#0:if=/usr/local/lib/psif:
-
-
- ******************
-
- New problem: it often chokes on largish (> 500K) PS files. I've since
- raised the baud rate to 38.4K, but the printer is supposed to be able
- to take that. (Sigh) Great mysteries.
-
- (Sigh again) any suggestions?
-
- Thanks in advance, and thanks again to all who replied.
-
- Dave
-