Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] pap and epson stylus color 800 localtalk interface
From: Mike Holling (myke@ees.com)
Date: Tue Sep 23 1997 - 10:40:46 EDT
> Anyone out there using pap to connect to an epson stylus color 800 inket
> with the localtalk interface? It would seem that this particular printer
> doesn't work too well with pap. When you send a job, data flows very
> slowly, and pap isn't able to disconnect when done (there is no way to get
> out of a pap -pprinter:EPSONLQ2@ZONE once you start reading from stdin).
> Even if you use the -E option, it says "Bad response". If you terminate
> pap with ctrl-c, the epson will remain busy forever until you pull its
> power plug and plug it back in (the power switch doesn't reset the
> interface).
>
> While the printer may not conform to all the standards, it does seem to
> work fine with the Macintosh epson appletalk driver, so it seems possible
> that netatalk could work with it if someone knew what was going on...
I've had this printer working fine together with Ghostscript. I can
probably dig up the configuration files if you'd like. The supplied Epson
drivers still ran faster and produced better output, so the
netatalk/ghostscript solution was never put into production. The printer
was connected to the parallel port of a 486/66 running FreeBSD and
netatalk.
- Mike
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