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Originally Posted by
DLooney
How would I create a driver myself?
Actually a good question! search the net for the
piobe and the
rembak commands.
piobe is the print job manager program, the
rembak sends the job to the print server.
rembak is a shell script and you can do all sorts of manipulations to the data stream to be sent inside it before actually sending it. Now you need to find out about the printers control sequences (perhaps in the printer documentation) and you can build your own post-processor for this specific printer.
Be warned, though: how you do it is - see above - simple to explain but that doesn't mean it is easy to accomplish. It is probably a tedious task and you might be cheaper off overall if you just buy a new printer. On the other hand i did that once ~25 years ago and learned a lot about the AIX printing system. Experience like this is a absolutely excellent learning experience, so if you want to try it: more power to you!
I hope this helps.
bakunin