[X Newbies] Printing to a Tally T8006 colour printer

[Philip J. Robar]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 1:41 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> G.M. HADLOW said:
>
>> ... new G4 iMac 800 which only works in system Ten.
>> On his network, he has a Tally T8006 colour printer
>
> The Tally T8006 is a low-end color laser printer that uses Tally
> Compressed Printer Language (CPL).  The T8006 cuts costs by using the
> host computer's CPU and memory to rasterize print images.  The T8006
> doesn't have the hardware that most printers include (including Tally's
> other, more expensive, color laser printers) to translate and rasterize
> traditional printer command languages.
>
> GIMP-Print doesn't have a driver that will allow you to use a CPL
> printer.
>
> See:
> http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3
>
> The T8006 essentially requires a proprietary driver for OS X that can
> only be written by the manfacturer of the printer.  I'm afraid that 
> your
> friend is out of luck.


Unfortunately there's also no support mentioned at: 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/

Phil