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Conference kernel::unix_printing

Title:Printing from UNIX
Moderator:KERNEL::COFFEYJ
Created:Thu Dec 17 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:956
Total number of notes:2876

916.0. "Printing on a DEC3000/400....Help" by HYDRA::LAVIN () Wed Mar 05 1997 18:54


I have a customer with an dec3000 model 400 (sandpiper) and he wants to connect
an NEC silentwriter Postscript printer either serially or parallel...He is 
using the Synchronous Comm Port and is told this works for both parallel and
serial...We have tried with no success to do either using devices lp0 tty01
tty02 etc... the trick with cat'ing a file to the device seems to work but 
there is no output on the printer... Should he beusing the alternate console 
printer port instead?...I will take any kind of help possible ...This seems
like a really straight forward thing that's not that way at all..

	leo

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916.1Won't workSMURF::LABONTEWed Mar 05 1997 20:514
The 1760 and the 1765 printers do not provide a serial interface according
to the NEC WEB page. The sandpiper dec3000-400 only provides serial ports
no parallel ports. If you are using one of these printers you have a
connection issue.