Serial Printing to Tektronics Color Printer

2007-12-25 10:00:00

Thanks to:

For sharing his "Summary: Apple LaserWriter II on Sun SS20 using

SunOS 4.1.4" and pointing me toward

Who sent along a working printcaps file for the same.

suggested the command line

% (stty 9600; cat file.ps) > /dev/ttya

which did not work.

lamented the difficulty of configuring Tektronix Phasers to work on

anything other than PC's. He did comment that Tektronix Tech support was

very helpful and this eventually led me to document #9432 on their Highly

Automated Library (HAL) web page at URL:

which gave a printcap file and other hints.

Now, all I need is a command line driven, full-color rasterfile to

postscript converter which allows rescaling. If anybody knows of a good one

please let me know.

My original question, criticized by some for its vagueness was:

I have connected a Tektronix Phaser II PXi color printer to serial port A on

the system motherboard of a SPARK II running SUN OS 4.1.3 and have not been

able to successfully send a PostScript file to it for printing. It is

looking for 9600 Baud, XonXoff, 8-data, no parity signals. Any advice would

be greatly appreciated.

Almost everybody who responded mentioned the need for a null-modem cable,

which I was using. I guess I should have at least mentioned that. However,

I left the question intentionally vague to get the maximum number of

different ways to approach the problem. I was looking for both a printcaps

oriented solution and a direct access tty solution. At least I have one to

start with.

Thanks Sun-Managers

Brad

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