Answers to "A Few Tektronix Printer/Driver Questions"

[David Duis]

In article <9106281053.aa02906 at VGR.BRL.MIL> cmellor at RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes:
>3.) Can anyone tell me where and how
>    to obtain drivers for the 4693DX and 4694DX printers?

And reports this answer:

>3.) Here is what I did:
>       b.) Logged in as root

	[ ..... a bunch of shell commands and script editing elided ]

I'd like to suggest that folks use System Manager's Printer Manager
GUI instead of manipulating shell scripts.  It does all the typing for
you, and installing a 4693D, DX, or 4694DX printer takes only a few
mouse clicks.  I know the 4693D support has been there since at least 3.3.

System Manager ships standard with all SGI boxes.  It can be invoked
from the toolchest --- the set of pulldown menus that appear by
default in the topleft corner of your screen.

Here's how to install a 4693D without using the keyboard to do more
than type the name of the printer:

1. Invoke System Manager.
2. Open the Printers icon in the System Manager window.
3. Click on the "Add" button in the Printers window.
4. Type in a printer name, 
	click on "Parallel," 
	and select the Tektronix 4693D printer type.
5. Hit Accept: the printer is now completely installed.

All System Manager's graphical tools edit standard text files, and all
files are publicly accessible.  Those of you so inclined can manually
do or undo anything the System Manager GUI does.  Of course, System
Manager makes a number of things much easier, including this.
 
>    It is not really mentioned by SGI, but using
>    t93print instead of tprint does improve the quality of printout
>    tremendously.  

Yup.  And you can expect future versions to improve even more.  


Cheers,

David Duis                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
duis at bent.esd.sgi.com, x7337		     Mountain View, California