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From: krb@mae37.ncsu.edu (Kenneth Barnhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Using non-IBM Postscript printers with RT's and AIX
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Date: 27 Sep 89 19:02:49 GMT
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Has anybody out on the net had any experience hooking up a non-IBM 
PostScript printer to an RT running AIX 2.2.1?  I have a NEC laserprinter
that talks PostScript that I want to use the RT, but I am not having any luck
with it as a PostScript printer. I have tried both the serial and parallel 
"other printer" devices definitions. I think that AIX (piobe) or the "devices" 
definition of the printer is sending carriage control information that I don't 
need with the PostScript files. 

I have been successful in using the printer in "DIABLO" mode, so I don't think
it is a simple wrong cable/ operator error communications problem. Any
suggestions,
how-to advice, examples would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Ken Barnhouse				bitnet: barnhouse@ncsuche
Systems Programmer			internet: krb@mae01.ncsu.edu
Engineering Computer Operations		phone: (919) 737-2458
North Carolina State University

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