[Leaplist] Hackfest Subject: Accel-A-Writer Printer

[patrick]

Bruce Metcalf wrote:
>> Don't forget on Saturday, 1 September, 2007 is the Hackfest meeting!
> 
> Speaking of which, in addition to bringing in my Haunted Hardware (which
> now seems to be happily running Debian), I have a new baby to show y'all:
> 
> It's a Xanté Accel-A-Writer 8100, a laser printer than can handle 11x17"
> pages. There does not appear to be a Linux driver available (though I'll
> be delighted to have one of you prove me wrong). There are drivers for
> Windows and Apple systems, but I'm having trouble getting it to work
> with a Windows machine (big surprise!).


There is an 8100 and an 8100A, here are the Win98/ME drivers, and the
Apple drivers.

http://www.xante.com/support/aw8100/default.aspx

I wouldn't worry about CUPS, it will do nicely on the parallel port.