Printing with Epson LQ-100 Matrix Printer

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Oct 27 13:59:43 PDT 2010


Martin Seidel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've plugged an old Epson LQ-100 matrix printer with lpt connector to my
> notebook and tried to install it with the cups setup, but there is no lpt
> connection to choose. The only possibilitys are:
> 
> SCSI-Drucker (Unknown)
> Hal printing backend (Unknown)
> Serieller Anschluss Nr. 1 (Unknown)
> HP Printer (HPLIP) (Unknown)
> HP Fax (HPLIP) (Unknown)
> 
> 
> what should I choose?

Get the  CUPSToOmni filter for CUPS. It is said to support this printer.

For details,rpm and source code see
http://omniprint.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/omniprint/files/

Helge





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