On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:00:44PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience of using Windoze-specific printers from
> > SMSQ/E? I notice that QPC2v2 has a facility to allow its PAR port to
> > be defined as 'printer'
>
> No, this feature does NO translation for the printer at all. The only
> advantage is that the printer doesn't need to be connected through one
> of the PAR ports. It can be on USB, on a network or on planet Mars, as
> long as Windows can print to it, QPC can too using this mechanism.
> Still you have to "speak" the language of the printer.
>
> What I did already try and described in an article in the German
> QL-Today is a way to link this facility directly to Ghostscript. This
> way SMSQ/E sees a postscript printer on PAR and as long as postscript
> code is sent to the port it will print fine on EVERY Windows printer
> available. As an example I ported (read "re-compiled") an ASCII to
> postscript converter from Linux and used it as a QD printer filter.
it should be probably noted that printing special symbols or
characters can be interesting that way, not to mention special
escape codes some SBasic programms will try to send.
This seems a rather complicated way to get printing done, go for
a real printer.
Bye
Richard
