askrieger
09-11-2002, 03:58 PM
Years ago, (when I used to walk 14 miles through the snow to hand punch paper tape with the toothpick attachment on my swiss army knife), I ran my HP Laserjet 2P printer off a parallel port on a Tatung SparcStation-1 clone, using the old unix lp command. It wasn't swift and it didn't look elegant, but I could turn out a listing, a letter, or even a report at less than the 1.5 to 2 minutes per page I'm getting using the same printer via gs and CUPS on a much more powerful machine. Frankly, a 300 dpi printer isn't really good enough for modern printing techniques.
Is there any way, I can re-activate old fashioned, non-postscript printing under Mandrake 8.2 linux? Is this what you get if set the printer driver to lprng? I actually found my old printcap entry and a shell script that drives the printer.
Is there any way, I can re-activate old fashioned, non-postscript printing under Mandrake 8.2 linux? Is this what you get if set the printer driver to lprng? I actually found my old printcap entry and a shell script that drives the printer.