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Article #634Re: IBM Infoprinter 20 under Linux with lprng
From: Terryc
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:07
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:07
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Nick Andrew wrote: > Terryc <newsfourspam-spam@woa.com.au> writes: > >> And no, I don't want the brainless twit suggestion of upgrading to the >> latest linux printing bloatware. This is a postscript printer dammit, it >> shoud just work under linux lprng. > > But Cups _does_ support the IBM Infoprint 20. PostScript PDL isn't > everything you know; the host still has to get the data to the > printer somehow. That is the problem, it isn't. > > Try this: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/printers/specs/410linuxreadme.pdf Confirms my suspiscions that IBM has once again developed a proprietary comms method rather than just use a *nix standard like everyone else has for twenty years. Hopefully, it is a simply port redirection.
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