> From: Gordon Montgomery
> Subject: HPIB to Serial Printer
>
>
> A while ago, I had to convert my HPIB 2566A to a serial
> connection.  It seems

Why "had to"? If it was because you bought one of the 9x9KS boxes, you can
still use HPIB with these boxes.

> to me that I lost a lot of features.  We've always had

You did.

> headers off, but after
> the conversion, the miserable line up lines print again.
> And, we seem to
> have lost page level recovery, and the 3000 no longer knows
> exactly what the
> printer is doing.  Anyway, we've lived with it so far, but

For reasons unknown to me, HP did not carry over their CIPER protocol's
intelligence to serial printers. PLR is part of that intelligence.

> I'm getting tired
> of manually having to line up odd sized forms after a paper jam.
>
> Are there any particular settings I should be using.
> It's defined as type 22, 19200 bps, 132 rec width, modem type 0, modem
> behavior 0, no parity, 1 stop bit, no hardware handshake, y
> initially spooled,
> y flow control, n NLIO device, and assigned to device class LP.

Whatever works for your printer is fine. The problems are not in the serial
connection, but in the software driving it.


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