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From: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de (Olaf Wagner)
Subject: Problems with printer
Organization: 'Holistic Computing Services'
Message-ID: <1993Mar3.110942.2528@luthien.in-berlin.de>
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 11:09:42 GMT
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I've got a Deskjet 500 and am using the interruptless line printer driver
which works quite well with pure text files. However, since I have got
to convert all my TeX jobs into graphics there are quite often really
big files and it's really no fun watching them printed out line
by line so slowly that you won't believe it. Is there anybody out
there who has managed to achieve reasonable performance even with
printing binary data?

I tried to connect the printer via rs-232, but that didn't help much,
too. The line printer daemon insists on setting the line to
seven bits with parity (cs7 parodd), and I've tried everything 
I could think of to get 8 bits transmitted, but without success.
Either I'm too stupid :-( or my computer doesn't like me anymore ;-)
or I am missing something quite important.

I'd appreciate every hint or comment on this topic.
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