Serial Printer

[Walner St.Hilaire]

morning all... How do I setup an Okidata pacemark 3410 printer ?

Hp-Ux11i

the printer was setup with /dev/tty2b13 as P7
it went bad and I replaced it with the same model, it does not print. How do I fix this up..

The new printer is default 8 bits, Parity:none,baud:96

please help... I went to sam, not much help there

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Check the speed setting from your original printer.

This probably set by DIP switches

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This is one of those "it depends" answers because the erial port charateristics can be set in a number of ways. The most common is a stty command embedded in the interface file for the printer.

cd to /var/spool/lp/interface
Use a text editor to view the file "myprinter" where myprinter is the name of your print queue. There is probably a stty command that lists the expected baud rate, wordlength, parity, ... . You can either change the interface file setting to correspond to your printer's default (stty 9600 cs8 -parenb) or (better) change the printer's setting to match those described in the interface file. Man stty for details.

In some cases, there is a separate process which opens a serial port, sets the baudrate, parity, wordlength, handshaking, ... and never terminates. This is a process normally started by an rc script.

[Walner St.Hilaire]

thanx clay, that file is just the generic one... nothing there....let's say i want to start from scratch... how do I set that printer ? say I want P13, serial printer is set with 9600baud, 8bits, even... please show me the steps to use... sam or terminal


thanx