Subject: [netatalk-admins] Problems sending binary data to parrallel port postscript printer
From: Bill Hart (hart@toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 13:37:56 EST
Hi I'm desperate,
this must be a common problem, but I can't find a reference to it anywhere.
Anyway the situation is
Macs running Laserwriter 8.5.1 printing images from photoshop via netatalk to
a Linux (Red Hat 4.2) or FreeBSD (2.2.5) box with a Tektronix Phaser IIIPXi
printer connected via a parrallel port. Spooling works fine (the whole idea
of doing it was to get the printer off localtalk). Printing files with only
ascii in them works fine, printing images (which are binary encoded) causes
the printer to choke..
printing images to a file and encoding as ascii then "cat"ing to the printer
port also works fine. Reading the documentation it seems as though there
should be no problem with parallel ports...
Anybody have any ideas ?? (a hundred students arrive next week, and I've no
money for a new printer or an ethernet interface)
thanks
-Bill
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