> the sbus printer card also has a bpp on it.  we have a driver
   > for the bpp, but nothing for the sparcprinter.  due to what
   > appears to be a complete lack of documentation for them, they
   > have remain unsupported.
   
   Arent they standard printer mechanisms or have Sun used
   something proprietry in there?

ummm, it appears to basically be some raster type device.  all the
processing is done on the host side -- this part isn't an issue,
there are already ghostscript drivers and so forth that run under
solaris that we can use...
   
   > you should be able to hook up a printer to the bpp port on
   > this card and print to a normal parallel printer.
   
   Okay that was my original intention.  If it does that then I'm
   happy.  It's going to be connected to a HP LJ4 btw.  It's just
   cheaper for me to do this than it is to buy a print server and/
   or jet direct card.  I also have the advantage of sticking
   ghostscript and some postscript generator perl modules on it
   for doing nice-looking automated reports ;)


i recommend looking at the magicfilter package.


.mrg.