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Title: printer on serial port (COM2/ttyS1)
Post by: aussie on February 10, 2004, 03:24:10 AM

I searched for 'printer serial' 'printer com' 'printer tty' - nothing!

I need a 2nd printer (first is on lpt0) so want to use com2 ttyS1, as the modem is on ttyS0.


How do I do so?

(I could setup lpt1, the second parallel, then kludge -
aussie for beat to shape  :-) ) the /etc/inittab and /etc/printtab, but Im not sure the inittab line needed)

TIA, Rob :pint:

Title: printer on serial port (COM2/ttyS1)
Post by: smeghead on February 10, 2004, 11:09:59 AM

.. do yourself a big favour and use USB - setting up & using serial printers tends to be a pain on most OS's (not to mention slow unless text only)

USB printing work fine tho make sure you get the printing patch if using SME 6 final.

Title: Re: printer on serial port (COM2/ttyS1)
Post by: aussie on March 08, 2004, 05:44:22 AM

Quote from: "smeghead"

.. do yourself a big favour and use USB - setting up & using serial printers tends to be a pain on most OS's (not to mention slow unless text only)

USB printing work fine tho make sure you get the printing patch if using SME 6 final.

i put CUPS in - it took an hour to get used to it BUT

WOW, any parallel, serial, usb, network port;
choose the printer type & your Running FABULOUS!