HI plotter (was Re: Help)

[hackmiester / Hunter Fuller]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:25, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, REINALDO JIMENEZ wrote:
>
> [ A more descriptive subject line is more likely to get you an answer.
> Lots of people delete 'Help' without reading. ]
>
> > My friend has a Houston Instrument Plotter Model DMP-50 and can not
> > get it running to print his school work (AutoCAD DWGs)
> >
> > Need driver? What he should look for?
>
> If your AutoCAD is anything like recent, you're running it under
> Windows.
Au contraire, or however you spell it! I am running 2005 under wine.
> Autodesk haven't supported any other platform since Release 13, 
> which was about 10 years ago.
>
> I set up something like this years ago, using an HI DMP-61 with FreeBSD
> 3.2 or 3.3. What I did was to install Samba on the FreeBSD machine, and
> set it up to 'share' the plotter (connected on an RS232 port) as a
> printer. Then the Windows clients were able to see the plotter as a
> networked printer, and use the native AutoCAD driver for that plotter.
> The FreeBSD machine was pretty much acting as a print server for that
> plotter.
>
> Sorry to be so vague, but it was a long time ago. Hope this gets you
> pointed in the right direction.
>
> --
> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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