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

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >

Perhaps the datasheet at
http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/comnelit.nsf/Files/6400uk/$File/6400uk.pdf?OpenElement&site=
may help.

Helge

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