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lpstyl 0.9.9


lpstyl lpstyl - Open-source printer driver for Ghostscript supporting 7 Apple Stylewriter printers

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Download Details
Company Monroe Williams
Version 0.9.9
Post Date April 28, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 133 KB
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lpstyl 0.9.9


lpstyl - Open-source printer driver for Ghostscript supporting 7 Apple Stylewriter printers
lpstyl is an open-source printer driver for Ghostscript supporting 7 Apple Stylewriter printers. On Mac OS X Jaguar and later, printing with lpstyl requires cups-o-matic (a CUPS filter script), Ghostscript (an open-source PostScript interpreter), and a foomatic PPD for each supported printer. The cups-o-matic filter and the foomatic PPDs are included in the installation package.

The lpstyl driver will communicate directly with the printer rather than going through a normal CUPS backend.

The lpstyl installer for Mac OS X ncludes support for 7 printers.
  • Apple StyleWriter I
  • Apple StyleWriter II
  • Apple StyleWriter 1200
  • Apple Color StyleWriter 1500
  • Apple Color StyleWriter 2200
  • Apple Color StyleWriter 2400
  • Apple Color StyleWriter 2500

    NOTE: This package supports only serial connections. It does not support AppleTalk connections on StyleWriters equipped with that option. The driver only supports a 360 x 360 dpi resolution.