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

[patrick]

Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> patrick wrote:
>> Derek Konigsberg wrote:
>>>
>>>     While I haven't looked up the specs for that printer, I'd recommend
>>> finding out if it can talk PostScript.
> 
> I understand that it does speak PS 2.0, but it does so in an odd
> dialect. No clue what's odd about it.
> 
> 
>>> If it can, chances are that you'll be able to make it work. ... The
>>> actual printer driver is a "PPD" file, which is just a text
>>> description file that is totally OS-independent.
> 
> Sounds good, as the short-term plan is to migrate to Linux -- probably a
> Debian-like distro, if not Debian itself.
> 
> 
>>> (and worst case, you can pretent they are Apple LaserWriters).
> 
> I pretended real hard, but the LaserWriter driver still didn't work.
> 
> 
>>> If it can't talk PostScript, find out what it can talk.
> 
> I'll see what I can find.
> 
> 
>>>> It's a Xanté Accel-A-Writer 8100, a laser printer than can handle
>>>> 11x17" pages.
>>
>> I also have a few Mac Power PC machines, too.  Want one? With Monitor?
> 
> I think I'm in enough trouble already, but thanks for the offer. Perhaps
> you can explain to me why I'd want to steepen my learning curve.
> 
> 
>> And, making any Microsoft 'talk' to any printer, or print server,
>> seems like such a chore that it is another reason to quit having
>> anything to do with Microsoft crapware, because, after all, I am
>> doing computing for the efficiency and speed they offer, and have
>> little time for trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
> 
> Aw, come on Patrick, you're among friends. Tell us how you *really* feel
> about Windoze!
> 
> Bruce
> 
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would be easier to make it run in Linux than in Windoze, though we have
the drivers for all of them since Win95!

Unfortunately, Microsoft really sucks. so no goodness could come of it.