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OpenVMS Printer Drivers?

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The Question is:

 
I have taken over a Digital OpenVMS network. The Digital LA424 line printer
failed and the buying people bought an Epson dotmatrix (LQ-2080) line
printer as a replacement.
Do Digital have the neccessary drivers availible for downloading, so that I
can run an Epson dotmatrix line printer, and in which directory in the
OpenVMS system should the driver exist in at the moment.

The Answer is :

 
  OpenVMS does not have a general concept needing a special printer
  driver for a particular printer -- OpenVMS provides drivers for
  supported serial line controllers, and assumes that the printers
  "behind" these controllers will behave as a normal serial device.
 
  Most any serial printer can be used as a "dumb" output device, without
  need for a specific driver.
 
  Various features and capabilities can be established on the print queue
  via constructs such as forms and via device-specific entries in a device
  control library.  These would include sending along information to the
  printer to switch it over into a particular device-specific mode, to
  reset the printer, and to handle various other host-relevent events.
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 7-OCT-1999 )
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