greer@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Greer) (02/26/91)
We are looking for a color printer to print window dumps from standard X11R4 running on Sun workstations (3/60s and Sparc 2s). We've seen a Mitsubishi, but it can only do SunView or full frame buffer dumps. We've also seen a really nice Tektronix printer, but the pure X-dump software isn't available yet -- it'll to OpenWindows or SunView, though (big deal!). Neither could be demonstrated to work on our system. (Tek also has a postscript model, and we could use xwd2ps to translate, maybe, but this is a slow process, etc.) Is anybody out there using any color printers to print standard X11R4 windows on Sun systems? On any systems? Please, let us know. By the way, we'd greatly prefer an Ethernet or SCSI interface. Thanks, Greg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory G. Greer (301) 286-5999 | under contract to: August Automation, Software Developers | Code 743 8781 Oxwell Lane, Laurel, Maryland 20781 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (301) 470-4020 | Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) (02/28/91)
In article <GREER.91Feb25154547@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov> greer@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Greer) writes: >We are looking for a color printer to print window dumps from standard >X11R4 running on Sun workstations (3/60s and Sparc 2s). > >Is anybody out there using any color printers to print standard X11R4 >windows on Sun systems? On any systems? Please, let us know. By the >way, we'd greatly prefer an Ethernet or SCSI interface. > The Amiga workstation is able to dump xwd dumps to almost all types of known printers. In particular most of the available color printers on the market are supported by the builtin Amiga software. This includes the Tek color printers as well as HP, Xerox, Seiko, Howtek Pixelmaster, Calcomb colormaster, etc. All you need is ethernet/tcpip/nfs/X11 for the Amiga (All available). Connect it up and you have a print server for X Windows that can drive just about any parallel or serial printer available on the market today. -- Dale Luck GfxBase/Boing, Inc. {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale