Re: [PLUG] printer problems

[schwepes@netaxs.com]

Thanks to all for the help.  Testing only makes me more discouraged right
now.  Seems that the original problem is in not the Linux printer
connection but in the fact that Star Office does not permit me to strip
their .sdw documents into simple ASCII text.
Meanwhile, the lpr command of ASCII documents produces text that is only
six points high on pages two thirds the size of a real page.  Meanwhile,
I tried the ASCII and the raw queues that both my Suse 7.0 and Star Office
permitted me and got garbage there too but the garbage had the right
height  for letters and right page length.  I tried everything on both the
test sample in Star Office and a text document without any graphics.
ASCII and raw both seem to have printed leagues of format information for
both graphics and text.
bs


On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Tom H wrote:

> On Monday 02 April 2007 20:12, jeff wrote:
> > schwepes@netaxs.com wrote:
> > > Recently, I've had to put a Panasonic KX-P1092 back on line because
> > > of the failure of more modern equipment.
> >
> > is this a dot matrix?
> > I'm trying to think back [cue wayback music] to my dmp days... I
> > remember that a whole bunch of them got by on emulation.  If you had a
> > laser, you might have needed to set the app to LJiii.  I'm really
> > searching for what the dmp equivalent was (if that's even your question).
> >
> > >  I need to know what
> > > protocols will make the damned thing work as I have had a bit
> > >  of difficulty talking to Panasonic.  Their web site has screwed
> > > up my browsers and their telephone service stinks.
> >
> > $*(#&@#@ing flash.
> >
> >
> > http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu/~aai/zgpeplpo/html/pplot.html
> > Pplot -- Pre-process or translate PEPL plot files.
> >
> > http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1e73dea431e32e21e862569c100
> >6e164d This document contains information on ASCII printers from Panasonic,
> > and provides information about the printer data streams supported by each
> > printer
> >
> > http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=12807
> >
> > http://www.driverguide.com/boards/printers9/index.htm
> >
> >
> > Hopefully you can get enough info to do something meaningful.
> Most of the dot matrix printers can emulate Epson MX-80 or IBM Proprinter
> models.  There should be a set of DIP switches or a printer setup menu to
> allow you to set the emulation type.
>
> HTH,
> Tom
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