Can I make my StyleWriter work with Mac OS X?

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• Reply 1 of 9

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  January 17, 2002 11:26AM

  I don't know if ghostscript can do it for you. Ghostscript rips postscript files to the native printing commands of the printer.
• Reply 2 of 9

  bogie Posts: 407member

  January 17, 2002 12:11PM

  I am told it might, does it happen in terminal or will it print from the GUI? I know little of ghost script.
• Reply 3 of 9

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  January 17, 2002 3:56PM

  Um? Well you set it up like an LPR printer. You set up the command to rip it through GS and then pipe it to the printer through the "raw" que.
  
  
  
  I guess the StyleWriter can't take a PS file on it's own right? Humm? Someone must know more about doing this than me?
• Reply 4 of 9

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  January 17, 2002 3:58PM

  I may have an old version but I don't see the stylewriter as supported. Here's the "printers" my gs says it can do.
  
  
  
  Available devices:
  
  x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p
  
  ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 uniprint
  
  bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 jpeg jpeggray pcxmono
  
  pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw
  
  ppm ppmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc
  
  tiff24nc psmono psgray bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256
  
  png16m pdfwrite bbox pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage
• Reply 5 of 9

  bogie Posts: 407member

  January 17, 2002 4:07PM

  Sigh, hmm, well, looks like that may not be the solution I need.
  
  
  
  Anyone know if you can hack a Canon bubble jet driver to work a stylewriter in X?
• Reply 6 of 9

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  January 17, 2002 4:14PM

  Here read this. My version is old. I need it to rip to a phaser printer now too.
  
  
  
  <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/"; target="_blank">http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/</a>;
• Reply 7 of 9

  bogie Posts: 407member

  January 17, 2002 4:20PM

  I shall, thanks for all the help Scott. I don't know anything about Canon print support, just thinking that since they made the StyleWriters for Apple and some of their printers are obviously supported then there must be a way of hacking that driver also.
• Reply 8 of 9

  ghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member

  January 18, 2002 12:35AM

  I just search google for "stylewriter ghostscript" and found this.
  
  
  
  <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/monroe/styl/README.txt"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/monroe/styl/README.txt</a>;
  
  
  
  There were tons of other ones so you may want to repeat the search.
• Reply 9 of 9

  bogie Posts: 407member

  January 18, 2002 10:10PM

  I will check this out over the weekend and see if it sounds like it will work.