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Ben Goodger wrote: > Hello > > I have just dug out an Okidata Microline 391 dot-matrix printer, which > as far as I can see is supported only by the IBM Omni print driver. > Unfortunately, this driver does not exist in Debian's repositories. > Indeed, it doesn't even build properly on my system. > > The CUPS documentation instructs me (having run ./configure, make and > make install) that "the CUPSToOmni filter interface should be build as > part of the Omni build but if it is not, go to the directory where > Omni is installed and then to Omni/CUPS and run make. This will build > the filter. Move the filter to the CUPS installed directory, typical > install is /usr/lib/cups/filter." It was not built, and running make > in this directory returns "no makefiles found". LS output is below[1]. > However, I found an RPM for Mandrake from 2004, which contains this > binary, so I moved that to /usr/lib/cups/filter. > > The next instruction is "creating a .ppd file". "This is done by > running the GenerateOmniPPDs program. This also resides in the > Omni/CUPS directory. This step assumes that Omni is properly installed > or the driver files used by Omni are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The > syntax for this is: GenerateOmniPPDs Omni_DeviceDriver_Name > > Omni_DeviceDriver_Name.ppd" Again, the binary was not built and is > nowhere to be found. Running the binary in the RPM returns [2]. It > attempts to load "libOmni_DeviceDriver_Name.so" from /usr/lib/Omni, > where there is no particular file referring to my printer (instead, > only the files listed in [3].) > > At this point, I am just about ready to give up. Can anyone help at all? > > -- > Ben Goodger > > B.F. Goodger, Age 16½ Does it look like the one on this page: http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/ML390THome.html If so, according to that page it supports the Epson ESC/P2 command set. I had a quick google search and found this PDF: http://www.epson.co.uk/support/manuals/pdf/ESCP/Part_1.pdf Looks like these printers below support ESC/P2 ActionPrinter 3250 ActionPrinter 3260 ActionPrinter 5000 ActionPrinter 5000+ ActionPrinter 5500 DLQ-3000 DLQ-3000 (’96 ~) LQ-100 LQ-150 LQ-300 LQ-570 LQ-570+ LQ-670 LQ-870 LQ-1070 LQ-1070+ LQ-1170 LQ-2070 LQ-2170 Stylus 300 Stylus 400 Stylus 800 Stylus 800+ Stylus 1000 Stylus COLOR SQ-870 SQ-1170 You're bound to find a CUPS driver for one of them. If all else fails try the Epson LX-80 driver and see if that does anything. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html