printer problem solved!!!

[drstrip@gnome.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip)]

With some hints from ACW at symbolics -
Its the parity settings. Seems that the ivory implementation of the 
serial drivers is a lot more strict about something. I had to
twiddle the parameters for the printer that had previously been
left unspecified. Where the printer object allows other options
the following worked for me.

  Other Options: NUMBER-OF-DATA-BITS 8 PARITY :none GENERATE-XON-XOFF yes

drstrip@cs.sandia.gov