vintage scsi printer question -- postscript - linux - windows

Hello from a muggy summer's day in germany..

Q: How does one send a PostScript file to a SCSI printer????

We are trying to get an old -- Agfa PCR II Film Recorder -- to work.
knoppix 5.1.1 reports
scsi0 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.1d 2004-05-27
scsi 0:0:1:0: Printer AGFA-MTX PCR2 2.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 2
cups uri scsi:/dev/sg0 = error

Windows XP finds a "generic printer" connected to scsi card

... but neither offers an interface to send a file to.

How do I send the raw postscript file to the scsi port?

At Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:06:42 -0700 (PDT) NotSure wrote:


Hello from a muggy summer's day in germany..

Q: How does one send a PostScript file to a SCSI printer????

We are trying to get an old -- Agfa PCR II Film Recorder -- to work.
knoppix 5.1.1 reports
scsi0 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.1d 2004-05-27
scsi 0:0:1:0: Printer AGFA-MTX PCR2 2.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 2
cups uri scsi:/dev/sg0 = error

Windows XP finds a "generic printer" connected to scsi card

... but neither offers an interface to send a file to.

How do I send the raw postscript file to the scsi port?

You will need to write a (user mode) driver that talks to
/dev/sgmumble (or the equivalent under Windows XP). The /dev/sg
(Generic SCSI device) interface API does not provide the same IO
interface as /dev/lpmumble would provide.

I don't know of a kernel driver that exposes something like
/dev/lpmumble to a SCSI-based printer. You could look at the code for
the usblp driver for ideas for writing such a driver, but you do need to
find out what the Agfa PCR II Film Recorder I/O API is like first.





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NotSure wrote:

Hello from a muggy summer's day in germany..

Q: How does one send a PostScript file to a SCSI printer????

We are trying to get an old -- Agfa PCR II Film Recorder -- to work.
knoppix 5.1.1 reports
scsi0 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.1d 2004-05-27
scsi 0:0:1:0: Printer AGFA-MTX PCR2 2.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 2
cups uri scsi:/dev/sg0 = error

Windows XP finds a "generic printer" connected to scsi card

... but neither offers an interface to send a file to.

How do I send the raw postscript file to the scsi port?

I don't know the details of the knoppix cups configuration, but if your
could do a test on a Linux box, you could try the cups scsi backend
and set up the film recorder as a raw printer.
From what I just learned from the internet, it should speak PostScript
level 2.

Helge

NotSure wrote:
Hello from a muggy summer's day in germany..

Q: How does one send a PostScript file to a SCSI printer????

We are trying to get an old -- Agfa PCR II Film Recorder -- to work.
knoppix 5.1.1 reports
scsi0 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.1d 2004-05-27
scsi 0:0:1:0: Printer AGFA-MTX PCR2 2.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 2
cups uri scsi:/dev/sg0 = error

Windows XP finds a "generic printer" connected to scsi card

... but neither offers an interface to send a file to.

How do I send the raw postscript file to the scsi port?



Just a very long shot: if you have a Postscript file then dd command
should just work.
This is raw, not through ghostscript.

HTH
Michael

You have scsiprnt.sys. On XP you Add Printer and select generic PostScript.
Free Raw Print: http://www.sharewareconnection.com/free-raw-print.htm

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Hello from a muggy summer's day in germany..

Q: How does one send a PostScript file to a SCSI printer????

We are trying to get an old -- Agfa PCR II Film Recorder -- to work.
knoppix 5.1.1 reports
scsi0 : Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.1d 2004-05-27
scsi 0:0:1:0: Printer AGFA-MTX PCR2 2.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 2
cups uri scsi:/dev/sg0 = error

Windows XP finds a "generic printer" connected to scsi card

... but neither offers an interface to send a file to.

How do I send the raw postscript file to the scsi port?

Hi - I too have one of these and need to get it kick started.
I have looked at your link but no updates yet.

Can you post a link to the software please?

Ken