Subject: nonpostscript printers using papd?
From: Ken Prehoda (kenp@nmrfam.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 1997 - 12:04:08 EDT
We have an epson stylus color 800 printer that I'd like to put on the
appletalk network using our linux box. One option would be to set it up
as a postscript printer using ghostscript and papd. However, I would
like to use the Epson driver software so that each user could customize
the options and take advantage of different features of the printer. I
assume there's no way to do this with papd as it is currently written,
but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard. It would have to
register the printer on the appletalk network, not as a postscript
printer, but as an epson printer that the driver would recongnize. Then
it would have to allow bidirectional communication between the printer
and the mac. Would this be worthwhile?
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Ken Prehoda kenp@nmrfam.wisc.edu
Department of Biochemistry http://www.nmrfam.wisc.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madison Tel: 608-263-9498
420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706 Fax: 608-262-3759
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