Panasonic Dot Matrix KXP1150
Submitted by dtauer on Mon, 02/26/2007 - 16:01.
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I have just loaded the latest MEPIS 6.0. My printer is an old KXP1150 on a parallel port. This is a character based printer, prints fine using "echo TEST > /dev/lp0", but using drivers prints only a bit of garbage from any application, and from the print manager Test Page. We tried CUPS, Generic Unix, LPR. We tried the KXP1150 driver and also the Epson driver (KXP1150 emulates Epson). All the same results. This printer works fine on other operating system. We need this printer to print our tractor feed labels, which we must print in random small quantities, typically one or two labels at a time. This should be the simplest possible print situation, I don't understand the difficulty. Help, anyone?
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I don't know the answer to your question.
I've got an old dot matrix printer in a closest that I've never tried on Linux. But, the ribbon in it dried out years ago. So, I couldn't test it anyway. lol
Are you sure you're selecting the correct Epson printer?
Bear in mind that these old printers didn't support a lot of different options for printing. I used to keep the control codes for things like, bold, italic and underline in a look up table by printer type for them when I wrote a lot of applications for DOS. I'd simply read a record from a file for a printer and had variables in memory setup for the common ones (like bold, underline, italic).
Forget multiple fonts (they didn't support them except for being able to choose from Courier 10pt to 12pt on some), unless you went to graphics modes which was more trouble than it was worth from DOS apps designed for text based stuff. lol
Why not use an newer Inkjet or Laser printer for the labels?
It sounds like you're printing them in very small quantities anyway. Avery makes a bunch of different label sizes designed to work with inkjets or laser printers (and you can even get free templates for Open Office for various label types, since I found a site that had them for download not long ago for a friend of mine I installed Linux for that needed to print labels).
Jim C.