[cups.general]

[Jonathan Wilson]

For the archives: If you set the printer's emulation to Epson FX in the IBM
6412's front panel menu and choose Epson > 24 pin printer in CUPS, you can
them print to this type of printer (IBM 6412/6400 series).

Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm am trying to get CUPS (currently using cups-1.1.19 on SuSE Linux 9.0)
> to print to an IBM 6412 pine printer. I have seen a few vague articles on
> google indicating that some people may have got this working but ever
> driver I've tried so far has cause a lot of gibberish to print (as always
> happens when you use the wrong print driver).
> 
> The printer is attached to the computer via parallel port, and CUPS is set
> to use that port.
> 
> The printer can emulate the IBM ProPrinter III and Epson FX line printers.
> I tried the ProPrinter II driver, and various generic and dot matrix
> drivers and all of them produce gibberish.
> 
> The test machine we have it on also has Win2k, which can print to the
> printer just fine, so it is certainly a driver issue.
> 
> Does anyone know of any method of printing to any these printer types.
> Doesn't even have to be CUPS - though cups would certainly be preferable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         JW