[vcf-midatlantic] UNIX TOWN --- Repair Workshop Signup for March 30 & 31, 2019
Jameel Akari
jakari at bithose.com
Thu Mar 28 11:41:56 EDT 2019
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> I think this would be a Unix-to-USB, a lot harder to do. Though he
> could
> turn a Raspberry Pi into a remote print server and use print via the
> TCP/IP
> network, if he has the drivers. This is probably more work than wanted.
This is mostly what I did for my SGI Indy + Indycam + thermal printer
year before last.
The Indy wrote files to an NFS share on a Rasperry Pi, which watched for
new files with inotify and piped them into CUPS to run the USB-connected
printer. That way when the Indycam took a new photo and saved it, it'd
immediately print.
I've definitely seen old HP pen plotters hooked up direct to UNIX-y
workstations; you need applications that generate HPGL output, that's
the tricky part. You don't really have a driver per-se in the print
server, you just dump the raw HPGL into the serial or parallel port and
the plotter interprets it.
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Jameel Akari
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