Any way to print to an old IBM 6400 - can't find a working driver

[Anonymous]

Hello, I have the same problem. I have an IBM 6400 which prints just fine on AIX . I have RHEL 3 AS as operating system, on which I am unable to find a working driver.

Regards,
Kamran


> 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
>
>