Re: [Groff] groff und Drucker driver

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:58:35PM -0300, eduardo.gross wrote:
> I wrote in response to your dialogue with Mathias Christian Ott on a 
> panasonic dot matrix driver.
> My printer is a citizen 200gx, it emulates epson fx-850 and ibm proprinter 
> III. My main sistestem is Debian Lenny 64 bits, but I also have slackware 13 
> 64 bits and 32 bits installed, and Debian Lenny 32 too. I try to find a way 
> to print my groff texts using dot matrix own fonts. I already used gs driver, 
> but it is slow, the printing is ugly and uses too much ink. The problem is 
> only that letters with accents, wich I need in portuguese, are not printed 
> correctly. Because of that, I am interested in knowing when such a driver 
> will be ready.

Today I received the PCMCIA parallel port card for my laptop which
only supports EPP and ECP, but my printer uses SPP. So I can't continue
to develop the driver, because no affordable PCMCIA or USB adapter which
has support for Panasonic KX-P1123 seems to exist.

> Thanks.
> Eduardo Gross

Regards,
Matthias-Christian