My original question asked how one configures printing for a Lexmark Color Jet
3000 to properly render Postscript, cleartext, and dot-matrix output formats.
Most answers only addressed the Postscript question, with the universal answer
that the needed filter(s) are not bundled with Solaris, and Ghostscript being
the most suggested solution.
I had already concluded the cleartext problem to be the fact that the printer
expects DOS formated text, i.e. lines terminated with <cr><lf>. A filter is
needed to convert from the Unix newline to the DOS format. None has been
suggested.
No one was able to suggest a solution to rendering the dot-matrix output. Since
the printer didn't "just work", and there is no configuration capability in the
printer, the only option would be a filter. I've searched for one in the past
and am not surprised there were none suggested.
Many thanks to:
grdodson@lexmark.com <--- Special thank you here!
George Cameron <george@biomed.abdn.ac.uk>
Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>
Marc S. Gibian
Telos Comsys phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org
attached mail follows:
My customer's application is coded to produce printed output in a number of
formats including:
a) PostScript
b) "cleartext" in Unix format
c) dot-matrix line-draw mode
Printing has been accomplished to date by using a configurable printer that can
properly accept format b) and provide emulation that directly supports format
c). Format a) was handled by purchase of a filter that converts from PostScript
to a form the printer could understand. All this was working with a Cannon
BJC-70.
The customer has now decided that the print quality of the BJC-70 was not good
enough and wants to use a Lexmark Color Jet 3000. Unfortunately, where the
BJC-70 had a great deal of configurability, the Lexmark is either on or off and
thus shifts the format matching task to the print host. When we spoke with
Lexmark technical support, they instructed us to get a pcl3 filter from Sun
since "that's what they use on their Solaris 2.3 system."
1. Are there really filters bundled with Solaris 2.5/2.5.1/2.6 that can perform
conversions from any of these formats to whatever it is that the Lexmark is
expecting... PCL rev 3 would be my guess based on what this tech. support person
told us.
2. I am particularly surprised to hear them suggesting that a Postscript to PCL
filter is bundled into Solaris at any level as the only solution we had found in
past searches were various shareware and small vendor filters, all with some
associated additional cost?
3. Has anyone setup a Lexmark Color Jet 3000, or something similar, on their
Solaris 2.5/2.5.1/2.6 system, and if so, how have you configured it for the
three data types I've listed?
TIA,
Marc
Marc S. Gibian
Telos Comsys phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org
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