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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!feeder.chicago.cic.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!torus.cs.tu-berlin.de!news From: Pierre Mai <dent@cs.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing graphics on old Epson FX-80? Date: 09 Jun 1997 18:49:39 +0200 Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 25 Message-ID: <m33eqrsov0.fsf@torus.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <u8qmm5.v74.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <5mpkeh$bob$1@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <slrn5p13dm.4q5.myke@phluffy.fks.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.149.17.217 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42707 myke@phluffy.fks.lan (Mike Holling) writes: > By using netatalk I was able to make this printer appear as a network > Postscript printer to Macintoshes, and it worked fairly well. Not bad for > a 10 year old printer. Until very recently, I had an old Epson MX-82F/T (manufactured in 1981!) running under Linux as my primary printer. And the amazing thing was, that it was still running happily with it's first print-head, though the thing has been with me since my old Apple ][+ days (and it was in use constantly, at times churning out high-volume database-listings, in office, later at home, etc.). The main problem in later days was getting new ink-ribbons, and getting it to work with some applications (ghostscript among them) required some patching, as the MX-82F/T was not quite compatible with later-day Epson 9-pinners, like the FX-Series... But getting 144x214dpi postscript out of it was pretty impressive (if a tad slow and loud ;). Regs, Pierre. (now using a LaserJet 5L, which I guess won't last more than a quarter of the time my Epson MX did ;)