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[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Thomas Carlson wrote:
> I have pretty much given up trying to print to my Epson SP 750 printer 
> through the printer port of my Powermac 9500.  The Redhat printer 
> configuration utility  in YDL 3.0 simply doesn't recognize the 
> /dev/ttyS1 serial port, no way, no how.  And, if the lack of response 
> to my query on this issue a few weeks ago is any indication, that's 
> been the experience of most everyone else, too.  My next thought is to 
> install a USB card into one of the 9500's PCI slots.  Could anyone out 
> there suggest a particular card that they have had success with?

Sorry, I must have missed the question. CUPS is your friend. CUPS will print
on to almost anything you can make a connection to. The problem is that 
RedHat's printer config scripts are just about worthless. 


I'll resend my posting on how to do it. 

Geoff.


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