[rescue] SPARCprinter model # QA-6

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> OK, I just picked up one of these.  IIRC it doesn't have the "brains"
> itself, you plug in a serial cable to a box that actually sends the bits to
> the printer.
>
> How do I use it?  Must I run Solaris?  Was it worth the few dollars I spent?
>
> When I plug it in and turn it on, it hums and goes thru a normal looking
> warmup phase.  Then it displays "C3" on the LED panel.

C3 = no paper tray.

You must run Solaris, on an Sbus based machine, with an lpvi
(501-1540/501-1910) card.  The interface is not serial or "conventional"
parallel.

You need the lpvi drivers (available from SunSolve), and either NeWSprint
(deprecated after Solaris 2.5.1) or Ghostscript.

-James