OpenSuSE 11.4 Star Micronics NX-2420 Rainbow NO DRIVERS

seasoned_geek · April 8, 2011, 9:13pm

I was rather shocked to find no drivers for:

Star Micronics NX-2420 Rainbow

which can emulate

IBM Proprinter 24 and EPSON LQ Neither of which have drivers either.

It may shock you, but there are still legal reasons to use dot matrix impact printers. Given the NX-2420 rainbow emulated the two most popular dot matrix printers (with the possible exception of the Okidata Microline family of printers, I’m quite shocked to see not a single functioning driver.

DenverD · April 8, 2011, 10:12pm

On 04/08/2011 09:36 PM, seasoned geek wrote:
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> I was rather shocked to find no drivers for:
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did Star not supply you with a disk containing a Linux driver??
ask for your money back!!

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martin_helm · April 8, 2011, 11:16pm

seasoned geek wrote:

>
> I was rather shocked to find no drivers for:
>
> Star Micronics NX-2420 Rainbow
>
> which can emulate
>
> IBM Proprinter 24 and EPSON LQ Neither of which have drivers either.
>
My system finds 5 drivers for epson lq

LQ-24
LQ-2550
LQ-500
LQ-570plus
LQ-850

and one with
IBM ProPrinterII

is none of that suitable and how did you search?