[SunHELP] IEE 1284 on bpp Sparc 20 / sun4m

[Michael S. Schiller]

Gee I have an HPLJ 5MP that I thought used an IEEE 1284 port, and I've never
had a problem printing to it from a Sparc 5. Are you sure you're connecting the
cable correctly? You do know that the parallel port on a Sparc 5 is a special
connector, right?

-Mike

>
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of P Nutton
> Sent: 12 July 2001 10:36
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] IEE 1284 on bpp Sparc 20 / sun4m
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way of printing to an IEEE 1284 printer from the bpp parallel
> port of a sun4m machine? We have NewsPrint running on a sparc 20 and have
> just purchased a HP Laserjet 8550 GN printer that is IEEE 1284. We can print
> to it from any old PC and also from the ecpp port on an ultra5, but not from
> anything older, such as Sparc 5, 10, 20 or Ultra 1. I guess this is a speed
> incompatibility problem (strobe width?). We might print via the ethernet
> straight to it but have a deep fear and loathing of built-in security in
> network printers. Our current print shop is NewPrint/Sparc based and it
> seems a shame to bung this nice new printer on a PC as a stop-gap. We can't
> port NewsPrint to the Ultras, as we are told it is "binary incompatible" and
> well past EOL. This also scuppers our plans to have one Sparc 5 per printer,
> instead of most of them hung off a Sparc 20. We want to keep NewsPrint for
> now as it does all sorts of nice header/footer, leading/trailing page and
> audit/accounting stuff for us.
>
> I can't find anything in SunSolve or the sunhelp or sunrescue archives to
> help.
>
> Anyone done this before?
>
> We also found a reference to an SBus IEEE 1284 card, a "Magma Advanced
> Parallel Port". Does anyone have experience with one of these? It might
> solve the problem for us.
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