Epson printers on the Sun?

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From: trwspp!spp2!sol!rroux
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1988 10:36

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I have a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 4.0 and I've attached an Epson FX-80
printer to it via a serial-to-parallel converter.  I added an entry in the
printcap file, which basically just points it to the appropriate device
and does the banner stuff.

It basically works, except that data at the end of the file that's being
printed is usually lost.  Cycling the power on the printer usually results
in a few more words to be printed.  This happens when using 'lpr' or bye
sending the file via 'cat'.

I have the baud rate currently set to 9600. I tried lower bauds (down to
300) but that didn't help, in fact it usually made it worse!

Any ideas?  Has anyone else attached an Epson printer to the Sun?

Thanks,
Ray Roux

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