TEK 4693DX and SGI 4D/20
Marc Friedman
marc at RAINBOW.MITRE.ORG
Wed Aug 22 21:54:08 AEST 1990
>
> I just installed the Tektronix 4693DX color printer on a SGI 4D/20 and have
> run into a roadblock. The TEK tests out okay, and I used the LPTOOL to
> install the 4693DX printer driver (filter?). I was under the assumption that
> *.rgb files could be sent to the printer directly i.e. lp -d<printer> <file.rgb>
>
> The filter is calculating some sort of magic number to determine if the file
> is an image file or not. If it thinks it is it logs an error message about
> the magic number and aborts the print.
>
> QUESTION: 1) Is there anything else I need to do as far as setting things up?
> 2) What's the best way to get an RGB image sent to this printer?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
I've been printing over the ethernet onto a Tektronix 4693DX and getting
nice results. First I run:
/usr/lib/print/k93print file.rgb > tmpfile
Then I merely catenate tmpfile into the device associated with the printer.
For example, if the printer is hooked into serial port 4:
cat tmpfile > /dev/ttyd4
Hope this helps you.
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