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- From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Printer Driver for IBM 3812
- Message-ID: <BxtxKC.910@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: UIUC College of Agriculture
- References: <3808@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <1e8g1vINNd55@killer.aixssc.uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:09:33 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com (Ian Stirling) writes:
- >In <3808@creatures.cs.vt.edu> cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horacio Cadiz) writes:
- >>
- >> Does anyone know where I can find a printer device driver for the
- >>IBM 3812 laser printer? We want to attach it to our LAN in the office.
- >>Thanks for any info.
- >>
-
- >There is no native printer driver for the IBM 3812. You have to use the
- >IBM Graphics Printer driver, IBM5152.DRV. This is not shipped with OS/2 2.0
- >but can be obtained from various sources:
-
- Actually, there is a driver named 'IBM52XX 3816-01S', which indicates that it
- supports the IBM 3812. Installing it with ours worked well except for one
- 'small' problem: the first print job sent yielded a blank page; the second
- job sent yielded the 1st job's output; etc. Switching to the IBM 5152 driver
- after this caused the system to work correctly.
-
- However, installing the IBM5152 driver initially caused a situation where an
- ascii file sent to the printer tried to print around 90 lines on a 65 line
- sheet of paper. (The extra lines were dropped, almost as if printing on
- legal paper...) The settings were correct, yet the system continued to send
- output as if there were 90-100 lines per page. Installing the IBM3816 driver,
- printing one job and reverting to the IBM5152 driver cleared the problem.
-
-
- >Finally, I have the source code for a Windows driver for 3812/3816 which I
- >propose to convert to an OS/2 driver at some time. Finding the time is
- >difficult at the moment though.
-
- You might want to check for similarity to the above mentioned IBM3816 driver.
- I found it in the same bundle as the IBM5152 driver, on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- Don
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