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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?"

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  1. Re:According to the webpage... by grundy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, either replace the network card with an ethernet one (usually they have a built in LPD that you can use, check the docs to be sure) or put linux on an old junky 486/slow-pentium, use the parallel port connection to the printer, and lpd on the linux box

  2. Just like an HP LaserJet... by red_dragon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the web page:

    MarkNet XL internal network adapter options for Token-Ring, LocalTalk and Ethernet...

    You'll just have to swap the twinax board for an Ethernet one, which would (presumably) also contain an LPD server. You won't need anything else, as the printer already understands PostScript and PCL5e.

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