hp plotter

[Miles O'Neal]

In article <4155 at kalliope.rice.edu> beareq!quants5!fitz at ai.mit.edu (David Fitzgerald) writes:
| i am trying to connect a hp plotter  7475A to my sun 3/60 and run it
| through a printer daemon on /dev/ttya i.e.  lpr <plotter_file>
| the plotter file is straight ascii text file and i have no problems
| plotting about one page of commands. however the plotters error light
| flashes through the entire process and aborts after a small portion of a
| larger file. i believe the problem lies with the printcap entry but i
| could be wrong.

You need to (a) make sure the plotter is set up to do flow control via ^S
and ^Q (one of the DIP switches) and (B) make sure that ttya is defined in
ttytype as something reasonable for what you are doing, including having
flow control set appropriately.

-Miles