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

[patrick]

patrick wrote:
> 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.
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Update...
the driver display windows at that URL let you scroll and there are lots
of drivers for lots of OSes.

The Linux Printer database doesn't mention the Xante' Accel-A-Writer
8100, but, it has to have Postscript PPD...