Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems sending binary data to parrallel port postscript printer
From: Gregor Retti (c60831@germ2.uibk.ac.at)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 05:05:07 EST
At 19:37 Uhr +0100 16.02.1998, Bill Hart wrote:
>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)
>
maybe there is an option in the ppd-file for your tektronix phaser
concerning the binary data transfer, which can be changed to ascii.
good luck
gregor
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