NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:20:30 -0700
> From: Charley Paffenbarger <cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu>
> To:sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu
> Subject: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?
> Cc:cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu
> Content-Length: 811
> Status: RO
>
> Has anyone developed a workaround to enable SPARCprinter support
> under Solaris 2.6? I've got 4 of these printers and I'd like to
> bring the supoorting hosts up to 2.6 from 2.5.1 (the last OS Rev.
> to officially support NeWSprint Rev 2.5B, the lpvi SBus interface
> and my SPARCprinters).
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Charley Paff
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Charley Paffenbarger Seismological Laboratory and
> Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
> Email:cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley
> Phone: 510-642-5333 475 McCone Hall
> Fax: 510-643-5811 Berkeley, CA 94720-4760
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Of the several responses which indicated that Ghostscript will support
the SPARCprinter, the one that pointed me to Jens Claussen's step-by-step instructions
came from Francisco Gaztelua (see attachment below).
Thanks, muchas gracias and merci beaucoup to all for your help including:
Francisco Javier Gaztelua Odriozola
Brooke King
Bill Hathaway
David Summers
Stefan Jon Silverman
Benjamin Cline
Roger Fujii
And, good luck to those of you who face the same challenge as I:
Patrick L. Nolan
David S. Foster
Barbara A Basberg
Ciao, bella sun-managers!
-- Charley Paff
> Fromlgzgaodf@lgax02.lg.ehu.es Tue Sep 22 01:25:59 1998
...
> From: "Francisco Javier Gaztelua Odriozola" <lgzgaodf@lgax02.lg.ehu.es>
> To:sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu
> cc:cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:20:17 +0200
> Subject: Re: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset=us-ascii>
> Content-Length: 1341
> Status: RO
...
>
> Hello,
> this problem has been addressed before in the comp.unix.solaris newsgroup.
> NeWSprint software doesn't work with Solaris 2.6 and it is not supported.
> There are (at least) two solutions to this problem. First, a commercial
> solution: Vividata Postshop. You can reach them at
> There is also a public domain solution: the well known GhostScript
> software. This postscript viewer can print on a variety of output devices,
> including the SPARCprinter. This solution has been implemented
> successfully in our site and in others. Jens Claussen has published a
> complete information guide on the topic. Reach it at
>http://www.db.fmi.uni-passau.de/~claussen/Unix/SPARCprinter.html
>
> Regards,
> Francisco Gaztelua
> University of the Basque Country
>
>
>
