On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:26:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've also gone to lok around at linuxprinting.org, and they don't have > a driver for deskwriter, only deskjets - deskjets IIRC use PS, and the > printer i have is just a serial printer. i've also tried playing > around with the serial ports settings, and still no output, not even > garbage.
As Brad said, most DeskJets use PCL or straight ASCII, not PS. DeskWriters were just relabelled DeskJets with serial/LocalTalk ports instead of parallel. I've never actually tried using my old DeskWriter from Linux, but from messing around with it way back when, I know that the trick is that the serial port is fixed at 57600 baud. Try setting the serial port to this speed and dump some text to the port -- you should see something. Probably any DeskJet filters will work fine for graphical output. -- Michael
