chris@UMBC3.UMD.EDU (Chris Schanzle) (04/05/88)
Hey gang - We've got an Apple Laserwriter here that we want to integrate into our Silicon Graphics 3030 workstation (a System V machine). I've successfully made the proper cable, made a "dumb" driver for "lp", set the switch on the Laserwriter to "special" (so it doesn't interpret things as postscript), and got some bad output. :-( All we want to do (at this point) is get it to print standard text files neatly. Unfortunately, the top and/or bottom line on the page usually gets the tops of the letters chopped in half (or quarter, or just a tiny bit). This is not acceptable, nor what I expected from the manuals. Are there some special Escape codes I could send the Diablo 610 emulation to give proper top/bottom margins on the page? One ugly solution (kludge) would be to have EVERY document have form-feeds at the bottom of each page, but that seems pretty drastic (not to mention restrictive). Alternatively, is there any software out there that can deal with the Laserwriter properly from System V Unix (either Diablo 610 emulation mode OR converting text documents to postscript - I don't care, as long as it looks good!)? Our other problem is probably more SGI specific - every 5 to 15 minutes the laserwriter spits out a blank page. Why? It will do this until I pull the serial plug out of the printer. Seems like line printer scheduler is sending out line feeds at a very slow rate. Any helpful hints graciously accepted. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Please mail info to me directly as I don't subscribe regularly to all of the above groups. -- ARPA : chris@umbc3.UMD.EDU BITNET : chris@umbc "Nothing can survive in a vaccuum; no one can exist all alone..."