jit@slic.cellbio.duke.edu (Jit Keong Tan) (04/23/91)
Hi, is anyone using the printer through the serial line with speed higher than 9600 baud ? Thanks in advance -------------------------------------------------------- Jit Keong Tan | internet: jit@slic.cellbio.duke.edu (919) 684-8098 | bitnet : tan00001@dukemc.bitnet -------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Mail: Duke University Medical Center Department Of Cell Biology Box 3709 Nanaline Duke Bldg, Rm. 349 Durham, NC 27710
drb@eecg.toronto.edu (David R. Blythe) (04/29/91)
In article <9104231634.AA22038@slic.cellbio.duke.edu> jit@slic.cellbio.duke.edu writes: > >Hi, is anyone using the printer through the serial line >with speed higher than 9600 baud ? > I run an apple laser writer at 19200 off of a ttyd* serial line with great success - at least I don't have to wait quite as long when dumping a megabyte image to it. I had to run a little PostScript program to reconfgure the printer to 19200 - a shell script like this does the trick: cat << EOF %! /Helvetica findfont 14 scalefont setfont 30 500 moveto (The Options number for the 25-pin port is ) show statusdict begin 25 sccbatch 10 string cvs show 30 400 moveto (The Baud rate for the 25-pin port is ) show 10 string cvs show 25 sccbatch pop 19200 eq { 30 300 moveto (Already set!) show showpage stop } if serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin 25 19200 0 setsccbatch showpage EOF then you have to fiddle with the interface program to make sure the port has been set to the correct speed (i.e. /usr/spool/lp/interface/PostScript) or whatever it happens to be. -drb