Re: [ql-users] Windoze printers
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. This way my QD can now print on all printers available for Windows! In my eyes the long term goal is to get applications to support postscript. Not only because QPC users would profit from this, but as ghostscript is also available for native platforms like the Q40 this could help those users, too! Marcel
Re: [ql-users] Windoze printers
Richard Zidlicky wrote: This seems a rather complicated way to get printing done, go for a real printer. I don't care, normally I don't have any printers attached to my PCs. But people are asking and on the long run ESC P/2 printers might die out. Marcel
Re: [ql-users] Windoze printers
At 10:14 ìì 12/8/2001 +0100, you 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' My local computer shop has some very cheap colour Epson printers which would be good as a backup printer, as my BJ10 is getting rather old and noisy. I appreciate I won't be able to program the printer using ESC codes etc, but would I be able to use it at all from QPC2 (or anything else running on the P*? (asterisk inserted to avoid offending Claus and Peter!) Another possibility: if I could print on this printer, I could then shift the BJ10 either to my wife's laptop or to my Aurora system and network the lot of them using Sernet. Which opens another can of worms...Sernet with more than 2 stations and 'circular' serial cabling - anyone got that one to work either? -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html The only way I found to print to a non-windows printer is to create a postscript file from QPC (using a program that supports postscript) then load it into Acrobat and print it from there .
Re: [ql-users] Windoze printers
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' My local computer shop has some very cheap colour Epson printers which would be good as a backup printer, as my BJ10 is getting rather old and noisy. I appreciate I won't be able to program the printer using ESC codes etc, but would I be able to use it at all from QPC2 (or anything else running on the P*? (asterisk inserted to avoid offending Claus and Peter!) Another possibility: if I could print on this printer, I could then shift the BJ10 either to my wife's laptop or to my Aurora system and network the lot of them using Sernet. Which opens another can of worms...Sernet with more than 2 stations and 'circular' serial cabling - anyone got that one to work either? -- Dilwyn Jones Dilwyn are the Windoze specific Epson's that much cheaper than the Dos capable ones? My 740 has both USB and PAR ports, USB goes to the PC and PAR to the Q40, magic! no need for printer switches or swapping cables. ( have not been daft enough to try printing from both at the same time yet) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Windoze printers
My local computer shop has some very cheap colour Epson printers which would be good as a backup printer, as my BJ10 is getting rather old and noisy. I appreciate I won't be able to program the printer using ESC codes etc, but would I be able to use it at all from QPC2 (or anything else running on the P*? (asterisk inserted to avoid offending Claus and Peter!) The answer is the Stylus 880. fast, quiet, good print quality and fully ESC/P2 compatible which means programmable by the ESC codes. Costs less than £ 100 - contact me if you want one and cannot get it from your shop. -- Roy Wood Q Branch 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex BN41 2LB Tel : +44(0)1273-386030 / Mobile : +44 (0) 7836-745501 Fax +44 (0)1273-381577 web site : http://www.qbranch.demon.co.uk/
