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Article #53906Re: Counterpoint: Lexmark's lack of technical support
From: Ralph Pengelly
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00
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Kurt Fitzner wrote: > Printing from DOS? If you can print from DOS, you can print from Linux. > I myself have an Execjet IIc. It works marvelously for me. I can use > PCL-3 drivers (DJ 500/500c), or Epson using emulation. > > Not all Lexmark pritners have problems in Linux. No, only those which, unlike the Execjet IIc do not have hardware emulation capability. In the meantime, someone from Lexmark has told me that they "cannot" provide the "proprietary specifications" I requested. I suspect this means that they are refusing to supply the data; I also suspect that this is of dubious legality; such data may be seen to constitute information required to operate the printer. Having printed to disk using the Win3.1 driver, I find that the control codes are rather odd. They all seem to begin with the bytes (in hex) 1b 2a (ESC *). The driver also seems to send an uncompressed pixel map; a single page of text gave a file of around 4 megabytes. If anyone has any ideas on how to match individual codes to printer functions, help would be appreciated. -- ************************************************************************ * Ralph Pengelly, Tutor/Lecturer CQU Bundaberg <r.pengelly@cqu.edu.au> * * http://musgrave.cqu.edu.au/staffold/ralphp/ * ************************************************************************
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,de07fd2e4a966ec X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,de07fd2e4a966ec X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,de07fd2e4a966ec X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,de07fd2e4a966ec X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Ralph Pengelly <r.pengelly@cqu.edu.au> Subject: Re: Counterpoint: Lexmark's lack of technical support Date: 1997/12/14 Message-ID: <34932F57.7E12A223@cqu.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 297973688 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34922FD6.568677B3@cqu.edu.au> <slrn694fum.suu.mib@earth.its.deakin.edu.au> <349274C1.5E885691@cqu.edu.au> <66uedg$ir3$1@zinger.callamer.com> <66uhja$nkh22@crash.videotron.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: CQU - Bundaberg Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux