Re: Sharp digital printer/copier problems
- From: tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (D. Thomas Podnar)
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:50:07 EDT
Has any one ever gotten one of these printers to work with SCO? I am
working with an onsite tech to try to get it working and have not
gotten any thing to print, the printer does not seem to react at all
to the data being sent to it.
I have tried with a Netgear PS101 using netcat and LPD as well as with
a HP Jetdirect. It is printing OK from windows.
I had them try changing to a HP Laserjet 5 windows driver and it
prints from windows fine (so it is PCL compatible).
The HP Jetdirect was working fine with a Deskjet printer using netcat,
so I would expect it would print OK when connected to the Sharp's
parallel por, but it doesn't. I am testing using netcat sending text
only.
I am suspecting that the Sharp printer may not like to print straight
text. Maybe there is some initialization I can send to get it to
print.
I do not know the exact model of the printer but can get it if
necessary. The OS is SCO OSR5.0.7 and is connected to the remote
office via a Sonicwall VPN.
Any help greatly appreciated.
We've got a Konica/Minolta BizHub C250 network copier/printer. It has a
built-in network card. in fact, every printer in our building is either
network attached or has a network-to-parallel adapter. Nothing has been
directly attached to a computer since the 1980s.
To accomodate this, years ago I wrote a filter that took many of the
nice printer model flags for PCL and moved them outside the spooler.
For instance, instead of typing/running.
cat filename|lp -doptra1 -o12
To send something to the spooler and get 12 pitch output on my printer
called optra1, I can just to this:
cat filename|/usr/local/optra1 -o12
which tells the filter to wrap PCL codes around the data and then just
send it to the printer whose name matches the script name.
There are two scripts and (importantly) a readme file at the following URL...
ftp://ftp.microlite.com/pub/pcl_filter
Assuming the printer has PCL capabilities, this may get it to print.
You are welcome to try the scripts. They've been posted for free download
since at least 1999 so may need a little work.
By default (no flags on the command line) the scripts set up an 80x66 page,
but you can duplex, change type/font, add margins, and lots of other stuff.
Over the years we've modified them to send macros from RealWorld and filePro,
download barcode fonts and many other things.
Tom
D. Thomas Podnar
Microlite Corporation
2315 Mill Street
Aliquippa PA USA 15001-2228
724-375-6711
888-257-3343 Sales
Developers of Microlite BackupEDGE
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