Need help connecting Apple LaserWriter IINT to Sun-4/260

Robert Filer rfiler at blackbird.afit.af.mil
Mon Oct 2 08:38:39 AEST 1989


I'm looking for help connecting an Apple LaserWriter IINT to a Sun-4/260.
I'd also welcome any suggestions for a problem I've having with said
printer.  When dumping TeX/DVI output (created with dvips from Radical
Eye) which *include Postscript bitmaps*, the printer chews on it a while
and then outputs nothing.  We have an NT hooked to a Sun-3 which happily
prints the same dvips output.  The only real difference I can find is that
the Sun-3 runs the TranScript package, but shouldn't I be able to dump
Postscript directly to the LaserWriter without TranScript?

Here's my current printcap entry.  Any major problems??

    lw|ps|Postscript Laser Printer:\
      :lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/usr/spool/lw:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
      :br#9600:rw:fc#0177777:fs#0000003:xc#0177777:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:

Bob Filer
Air Force Institute of Technology
rfiler at blackbird.afit.af.mil  or  rfiler at afit-ab.arpa



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