Okidata ML320T printing questions

[John Vetterli]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:31:00PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   I have a brand new Okidata ML 320Turbo, running in IBM-emulation mode.
> > "lpr textfile" prints the textfile, so I've at least got things
> > connected properly.  Now the configuration questions...
> >   1) It has a "staircase effect".  I.e. \n causes it to drop down a row,
> > but it does not return to beginning of line.  It seems to expect DOS
> > text files where CHR(13)+CHR(10) constitutes end-of-line.
> >   2) "gs -h" indicates that the "okiibm" device is compiled in.  What do
> > I do to get graphics (e.g. webpages) to print properly.
> Well I use cupsys which for me at least makes setting up a printer easy.

Or, if you don't like cups, I find that apsfilter is a very idiot-proof
way of setting up a printer (unless you have to install its dependencies
manually, otherwise, welcome to dependency hell).

http://www.apsfilter.org/

JV
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