[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-19 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 at 22:45:55, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Qliberator was another story but Ian Stewart, who was my only contact, had only a small part in writing it. The other author, whose name escapes me, Adrian Soundy had long since disappeared and the sources were not avai

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-18 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I think if QLiberator and Text87 were achievable, I suspect Roy Wood and/or Jochen Merz would have secured them by now. This is indeed true. I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an upgrade to Text 87 and suggested

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2004-03-11 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 23:37:39, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote: >>(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >> >>> >>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman >>>

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2004-03-10 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or so

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2004-03-10 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >>The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or >>so including VAT. >It is 117.30 at Novatech > >and at > >www.hamil

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2004-03-10 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or so including VAT. It is 117.30 at Novatech and at www.hamiltone.co.uk it is 113.50 Really, Tony, you not always sling money at these big organisation

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2004-03-10 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 12:53:19, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > >> OK, I don't know much about Epson printers, I admit, but as to HP >>printers, they >> all _still_ understand direct (HPPCL-) commands and you can print >>plain text to >> them without a problem from the

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2004-03-10 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 12:28:33, Jérôme Grimbert wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >Only option so far is to be picky when buying the printer, checking >that there is at least a parallel port (and one that does not need >ECP/EPP, but plain good old parallel port, mono-directional... and no >fan

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2004-03-09 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far as he knows) it is bec

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2004-03-09 Thread Darren . Branagh
>My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked >him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far >as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned >by centronics, and royalties must be paid, whereas USB can be ado

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2004-03-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
This is only part of the story. There is also a general move by the computer industry to have fewer interfaces and, by extension, fewer drivers on a system. USB II is much faster than Parallel - actually even USB 1.1 was. They also want to lose the PS/2 ports and use USB for keyboard and mouse

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2004-03-08 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned by centronics, a

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2004-03-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
OK, I don't know much about Epson printers, I admit, but as to HP printers, they all _still_ understand direct (HPPCL-) commands and you can print plain text to them without a problem from the QL. I just checked the (German) HP homepage. I have not found a single printer where the technical dat

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2004-03-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Jérôme, Side-question: is the text87 patch available for Q40 ? (I read about it for QPC). I'm lacking text87 in 1024x512 so far... (And at which price... ) I don't know how many inquiries have been passed on to Marcel and at which level he decides to invest more time... I guess that non-QPC us

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2004-03-08 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: Prove me wrong but most of the "documents" would be a listing here and a small letter there. These can be printed without a problem using the small driver utilities we have for HP and Epson. Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities whi