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Old July 7th 16, 10:32 AM posted to comp.periphs.printers
Gernot Hassenpflug[_4_]
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Default Windows IPDS Printer Driver

writes:

On Wednesday, May 10, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andy McColl wrote:
Does anyone know If there is a IPDS Driver available for Windows as in I
want to be able to create MS Word documents and print them to an IPDS
compatible printer.

You help is appreciated.

Andy McColl


Andy, did you ever find a solution?


Interesting, as usually the problem is the other way around (and
harder): a job generated IPDS (or AFPDS) on an older mainframe or
system, which job then needs to be converted to a different printer data
format (hence virtualIPDS and other programs).

If you are only dependent on the printer, why not give the printer specs
here??? After all, most of these printers have LPD built-in, so you
would only need to change the interface cards (if they have the only twinax
connectors currently, for example). The printers internally probably
speak PostScript and PCL5e already too.
Or if the printer has a parallel port also already, attach some cheap
linux box to the printer and put LPD on the linux box.

Refs:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/01/10...port-for-linux
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