davis@blake.acs.washington.edu (Darrell Davis) (06/02/89)
We recently bought a NEC LC890 PostScript laser printer to use on a group of three Personal Iris's. I am having a fair bit of trouble getting it to work. I did call the SGI hotline and went through the configuration, all indications are that it should be printing, but isn't. I used the procedure in the laser printer documentation, the command mkPS, etc. i have several questions: The first is has anyone put one of these printers on the serial interface/ printspooler? I can't see why this device should be any different than an Apple LaserWriter, that is the idea isn't it. I am using a full 9pin to 25pin interface cable. The laser printer is configured for PostScript Batch, serial interface, 9600 baud. The other question I have is whether anyone has configured a laser writer/NEC printer to use the parallel port, i.e. /dev/plp. I have printed out PS files using cat file.ps > /dev/plp. It would be nice to config a network of Iris's to use the the parallel interface. The simple-minded approach of substituting plp for ttyd2 in the configuration sequence doesn't seem to be acceptable. I must be doing something dumb because the configuration protocol looks so easy. Thanks in advance. -Darrell Davis