Hooking up an IBM 3812 pageprinter.

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4 total messages Started by Hugo Calendar Sat, 04 Aug 1990 10:16

#813

Author: Hugo Calendar
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 10:16

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Yep, I did devices...  Informations is being sent
through the cable, so something is working.  Does
anybody have a sample file that I should be able
to send to the 3812 printer from an RT?

Thanks,
-Hugo

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Re: Hooking up an IBM 3812 pageprinter.

#814

Author: karish
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 16:56

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In article <5751@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hugo@spica.ucsc.edu (Hugo Calendar) writes:
>Yep, I did devices...  Informations is being sent
>through the cable, so something is working.

    Did you use `devices' to configure the line for a tty or for
    a printer?  These are different.

    Did you check the settings of the DIP switches inside the back cover
    of the printer?  The printer manuals tell what they do.

>Does
>anybody have a sample file that I should be able
>to send to the 3812 printer from an RT?

    '/bin/print file' should work for any ASCII file.
-- 

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000

Re: Hooking up an IBM 3812 pageprinter.

#822

Author: JEFF BRENDLE
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 15:07

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There is a second diskette that you must install in the 3812 for it to work
with the 6150...of course ours isn't working yet either, so....try something/
try everything until it does I guess is the best I can tell you, but we DID
replace the diskette with one labeled "IBM 3812 RT"  :-)

                                                               -J

Re: Hooking up an IBM 3812 pageprinter.

#825

Author: karish
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 22:15

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In article <90219.110715BLI@psuvm.psu.edu> BLI@psuvm.psu.edu
(JEFF BRENDLE) writes:
>There is a second diskette that you must install in the 3812 for it to work
>with the 6150...

    Ours says "P/N 11F7734  EC A74721  V2.01 07-28-1988"

>of course ours isn't working yet either, so....try something/
>try everything until it does I guess is the best I can tell you ...

    The printer here has been running for a year and a half with
    no attention other than replacing expendable parts (some of them
    EXPENSIVE).

    All I had to do to get it going was

    0) Unpack the printer and plug it in.
    1) Put in the correct diskette.
    2) Change one of the DIP switches.
    3) Run `devices' to tell the system that I had a printer, not a
       terminal, on the serial line.

    I fussed with the /etc/qconfig file a bit, but I think that the
    stanza `devices' installed would have worked unchanged.
-- 

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000

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