Re: Attaching a tractor-fed Epson LX-80 dot matrix impact printer was the height of luxury
I've been meaning to see if my Roland A3+ plotter works on one.
We just got hold of a Roland CM24 cutting plotter, and after trying a bit to get it to work using an USB-parallel converter I remembered the two Axis540 network print server dongles that should be Somewhere In The Pile Of Tat. Found them, checked those out, configured one of them, plugged it in and told CUPS about it.
The Axis540 speaks lpd, and offers eight logical ports. Default it sends some ESCP/2 codes to reset the printer before and after each job, but I thought it prudent to blank those strings. CUPS is configured to use it as 'generic - raw', and this is what inkcut's HPGL output is sent to.
Worked right from the first attempt.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
