Subject: Re: More easy end-user questions.
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/2000 23:32:09
In message <200004130421.AAA04470@ghost.whirlpool.com>, Andrew Gillham writes:
>This may be worthless, but Ghostscript has support for several of the
>Canon Bubble Jet printers.  If yours is something like that you should
>be able to get something out of it.  But if you are hooking it to a
>Psion, perhaps it is some other oddball printer.  I vaguely recall having
>a "BJ10E" at work that may have been a portable printer?  (depending
>on your definition of portable)

It's a BJ50C.

>Anyway, perhaps posting an actual model number would be helpful
>as well.

Oops.  I just assumed they were all compatible.  Anyway, it's a little tiny
printer which is either black&white or color at any given time, if memory
serves.  Parallel port and IR.  I was planning to use it over parallel.  It
takes a while to charge, though, and I don't think I have a fresh ink
cartridge, so I wanted to ask about this before spending much time and effort
trying to get it ready again.

I'm reasonably sure it can print raw text *somehow*, simply because the Psion
doesn't seem to have font/pixel engine drivers for it.

Ideally, I'd want to do output from something like staroffice or even *gasp*
netscape, but I'd be fine with TeX or troff output.  I suppose ghostscript is
a way to make almost everything work.  :)

-s