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armansansd

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Registered: 2017-10-03

Posts: 6

Roland Sketch Mate 11 - pen Plotter

Hi everybody,

I found a Roland sketchMate Rp11g picture here :

So far I manage to use it through windows xp (virtualbox) using a parallele port and an old driver.
But I really want to use it with archlinux.

I stumbled upon this python library and this nodejs library ;

But they both working through serial connexion, and they don't recognize my plotter. I think they are specific to some projects with other brand.

So my questions are :

Is it possible to connect with my parallele cable to my plotter and send directly commands HPGL ?
Can I do anything with my xp driver ? Maybe through wine to make the machine accessible from my computer.

The ideal would be to send directly hpgl command to the pen plotter, in order to be able to link it to other code like processing.

Feel free to ask me any more questions, I still looking actively for a solution.

Thanks a lot,