Re: Printing to Appletalk from a shell

[Marlin Allred <ma@is6.slc.unisys.com>]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Dragon King wrote:

k> What drivers are you using, and are you printing a text only draft
mode?
> Not sure if that's possible. How 'bout dip switch settings.. I know on my
> DeskJet 500 there are settings for CR to CR + LF conversions. Maybe you
> need to toggle that.

The DeskWriter does not have dip switches but was able to get around the
problem using PCL3 commands. The appletalk manual implies that printing to
localtalk printer should be transparent when using .RPM interface. That is
part of my problem is knowing which printer driver should be used from a
shell.
 > 
>  > Then I went to Basic.system and selected PR#7. This produced readable
> > results but each line on output appeared immediately after the previous
> > line, wrapping to the next line on the paper when the printed output
> > reached the right margin. The output showed that the CR and LF but they
> > were not interpreted. The output also was printed white on black.
> Hmm, white on black.. Interesting. No clue about that one.
> 
> Once I can get printer sharing software installed on my Mac, I'll be able
> to work on localtalk printing more. If it's not too much work, I'd like
> give lpd the ability to spool to AppleTalk connected printers. Probably
> via an optional "lpd printer" program. And if I have time, I'll look into
> bettering the multiple printer support in the same package, tho this topic
> is better moved to csa2.gno.
>
This sounds like a pretty good feature.

Marlin