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IPD/SCS Printer Support for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the reviving-old-hardware dept.

All Dead Homiez asks: "My company has several very nice printers left over from our old mainframe setup. Unfortunately, they have a BNC interface that speaks the IPD/SCS protocol instead of Ethernet. We are an all-Linux shop now and we'd hate for all of these perfectly good printers to go to waste, so does anyone know if there is any software for Linux that speaks IPD/SCS?"

2 of 10 comments (clear)

  1. Google is your friend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Search results for "about IPDS" (not IPD, as a few result pages made me discover):

    http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/ipds/home.p hp 3
    (interesting... maybe hackable).

    http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipds
    (you'd probably want to investigate this PSF...)
    also here: http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/download
    If you want to do a quick hack: (shudder)
    http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/ipntwe l

    more info here too:
    http://www.linuxguruz.org/foldoc/foldoc.php?PSF

    I'll post again if I find more.

  2. Re:Google is your friend [even better] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    more:

    "IBM 5250 IPDS PRINTER EMULATION. source code has not yet been converted for suitability
    to Linux, if you need the source to the IPDS engine contact me. "
    http://linux.nf/ipds.html
    also: http://linux.nf/scs.html

    also of interest:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:PLzzgNOg34Q :w ww.i-data.com/datash/pdf/epm.pdf+SCS+linux+print&h l=fr

    THe first link here should raelly be of help.
    have fun.
    - Colin@NOSPAMninja.ca