Install the IKON card and Driver
The default driver name for this is /dev/ihcp0.

Install the RTL2VERSA program
This program is normally installed in the /usr/local/bin directory: should have 777 permission and be owned by root.

Configure a new Plotter
This may be difficult since the Solaris OS does not have any model interface for this type of raster printer. Here is the approach we took in some cases to force the correct printer.

Add local ACSLP0 with Admintool
We will use the admintool to create an new plotter and then manually modify some of the plotter onfiguration files. Our experience was that some machines prevented us from defining anything but a Postscript printer. So we defined a local Postscript printer and then modified the resource files. You must be root to run admintool.

# admintool [enter]

The screen above was taken after we added the acslp0 printer but you get the idea. When you add a new local printer the following screen pops open.

Printer Name: Call the printer acslp0 and describe it as a Versatec 400 DPI driver. Printer port is /dev/null.

Printer Type: There are quite a few choices but for some reason our Sparc 5 would not let us complete the definition unless we selected Postscript.

File Contents: select any.

Add: click on Add button to add this printer.

Apply: click on Apply then on OK.

Now comes the fun part. You have to go into the printer adminstration area and modify a couple of files for this to work correctly. First, we modify the configuration file for acslp0 as shown below.

$ cd /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/acslp0 
$ ls 


alert.sh	comment		users.deny 
alert.vars	configuration 

$ vi configuration 

Banner: off 
Content types: any 
Device: /dev/null 
Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/rtl2versa 
Printer type: raster 
Modules: default 

Now we need to modify the acslp0 file. We will use the dumbplot.sol as the model for this plotter. This file is located in the /usr/spool/lp/admin/lp/interfaces directory.

 $ cd /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces 
 $ vi acslp0 

# $Source: /users/hpnp/odyssey/sh/RCS/dumbplot.sol,v $ 
# $Revision: 1.1 $ 
# 
# lp interface for dumb plotter # modified for Versatec by ACS 
copies=$4 
# Handle disable and cancel traps 
trap “trap 15;kill -15 0;exit 0” 15 

# The remaining arguments are files 

shift; shift; shift; shift; shift 
files=”$*” 

# Plot the spooled files 

i=1 while [ $i -le $copies ] 
do
          for file in $files 	
          do 
# command line arguments for rtl2versa 
# -pln1 - indicates 1 color per plane 
# -ikon use this for ikon cards default is for 116 card 
# -sd=/tmp directory for temporary lock files 
# -DD dot double 200 dpi plots to 400 dpi 
# -slp0.1 time to sleep in seconds per inch during rewind 
# -mg sends no merge tickmarks command 
# $file file variable 
# /dev/ihcp0 output device driver for Ikon. /dev/lp0 device driver for 116
 /usr/local/bin/rtl2versa -pln1 -ikon -sd=/tmp -slp0.1 -mg $file /dev/ihcp0 2>/tmp/log.$$ 
done
	i=`expr $i + 1` 
        done 

exit 0 

Install GDSPLOT as you would for the HP 650C/750C. Then configure the plotter as follows for a color Versatec:

You can download the RTL2VERSA executive for SunOS and related tools here:

rtl2versa.solaris.v112.zip [0.6 Mbyte zipped password required]