[cups] Driver for Printek FormsPro 4503, Printek FormsMaster 8003

[Rick Cochran]

Or, you could try Turboprint.  http://www.turboprint.info/

-Rick

On 10/30/16 10:17 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>
>> Am 30.10.2016 um 01:00 schrieb Justin Killen <jkillen at allamericanasphalt.com>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for support for the following models:
>>
>> Printek FormsPro 4503
>> Printek FormsMaster 8003
>>
>>
>> I've tried using the generic IBM driver and the generic Epson driver, but neither allows us to set the form number and cpi/lpi options - is there a driver out there that would expose these options at the print queue level?  If not, is there a good place to request support for them and/or contract the creation of such?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Justin
>>
>
> Justin,
>
> I tried to get the programmer’s manuals for the printers but was only partially successful.
> If you happen to have these, please mail them to me off the list (helgeblischke at web.de).
>
> As far as I know right now, both printers offer Epson and IBM emulations which include
> graphics capabilities, but if these emulations can be used as is depends on the details
> (the dot matrix printer support by CUPS filters is fairly sparse).
>
> If you need a filter tailored to your needs, let me know if text mode is sufficient, or do you need
> graphics support as well, which I think, is feasible with not too much work.
>
> If you need an offer from me, note that you need to prerequisites from the open source
> community:
> –	Perl (5.83 or higher), which is one of the easiest to use programming (scripting) languages,
> –	Ghostscript (any version >= 7.00) if you need graphics support.
>
> You can contact me via
> <helgeblischke at web.de>
> or
> <h.blischke at acm.org>
> off the list, if you want.
>
> Regards,
>
> Helge
>
>
>
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