On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Keith Douglas wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Jim Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Stefano D'Andrea wrote:
> > 
> > > How can I set up  NetBSD to print with my DeskWriter 520?

Try Ghostscript, though not the one I put on puma YEARS ago.

> > Or an Imagewriter II?  I haven't come across any info about this, and 
> > haven't tried plugging one in yet; still trying to hack out X windows.  Feel 
> > free to just beat me over the head with a URL if there's info online.
> 
> Some printers, including my DeskWriter C, can print text crudely just by
> redirecting to the apporpriate port. (which is neat, because there's no
> real character generator in it)
> 
> This does lead to problems with man pages, but usually works for most
> stuff.  As for printing pretty pictures, well, beats me. :)

Ghostscript. I patched it years ago to deal with my Deskwriter. The color
one should be similar. Actually, the Paintjet will probably work out of
the box, but it has low-grade compression.

The ability to print text is why we now have default baud rates in the
installer. You can set up serial echo, and set the printer's baud rate to
be right for your printer. Then all the boot messages will be printed out;
no more trying to catch stuff as it scrolls off the top of the screen.

Take care,

Bill