peters@cc.msstate.edu (Frank W. Peters) (01/28/89)
Hello, I recently attached an Epson LQ-1000 printer to my Sun 3/50. I have two queries/requests with regard to this. First, while the printcap entry I have seems to be workable it does have problems. I occasionally have to cycle the power on the printer between prints. Does anyone have a fully operational printcap entry for an LQ? Second, assuming the printer is connected what packages, commercial or free (though naturally I prefer free :-) exist to allow me to take advantage of it's capabilities? What I'm interested in primarily is filters to allow me to take advantage of bold and italic capabilities with ?roff packages and that allow me to print graphic images (the images can be in any of the common formats as giff, tiff, macpaint, raster). So far the only packages I have located are a program to print color images which doesn't work with black and white images and the nroff-to-epsonlq package available from WSMR-Simtel20.army.mil (I can't get this to work and the address given for the author seems to no longer be valid). Any help with these would be appreciated. Please send any responses directly to me as our universities subdistribution list seems not to have been activated yet. Frank Peters ===================================================================== Systems Programmer | Mississippi State University Phone: (601) 325-2942 | Computing Center and Services Internet: peters@CC.MsState.Edu | Post Office Drawer CC BITNET: PETERS@MSSTATE.BITNET | Mississippi State, MS. 39759 ===================================================================== P.S. For those interested the printcap entry I'm currently using is as follows: lp|epson:\ :lp=/dev/ttya:sh:of=/usr/local/bin/epf:\ :br#9600:pw#80:tr=\f:\ :ms=evenp,-tabs,nl,crtscts:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: