Adding a text only printer

[Anonymous]

  I tried them and mostly no joy.  Some were able to print text but only after printing some preliminary text.  I was able print fine with it using DOS.  Haven't tried with Windows yet.  I am working on trying to get the user's manual for it but that will be in another week.

Scott

> On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:34, svetter at ameritech.net wrote:
> >   I have a Data South DS-180 9-pin dot matrix printer and am trying to
> > add this printer as a text only printer.  How do I do such?  I've tried
> > every generic printer setting and nthing seems to work.  And there is
> > no printer driver I see in CUPS to support it.
>
> The huge majority of those old pin pounders had either an epson or ibm
> emulation, one of which was usually the powerup default.
>
> Experiment with the various epson 9 pin driver options, and if that
> doesn't seem to be promising, give the ibm group a try.  Back in those
> days, there was a lot more standardization between pin pounders than
> there is between ink squirters now.
>
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