Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!runx!sce From: sce@runx.ips.oz (Simon Evans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Serial printer drivers Message-ID: <1014@runx.ips.oz> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 01:43:57 EDT Article-I.D.: runx.1014 Posted: Fri Jul 10 01:43:57 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:51:43 EDT Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia. Lines: 35 I am involved in writing a database application for a client who currently owns a Brother daisywheel printer and wishes to continue using it (both to save investing money in a new printer, and to continue to have a high standard of printing of his accounts). I therefore need a printer driver that will talk to the daisywheel printer and that I can sell to client [ie I cannot just use such a driver from a word processor that includes one unless the driver is PD]. There is such a driver advertised in the directory of the May MacUser (p203) from GDT Softworks, Canada, called Print-Link. Does anyone know anything about this product (cost, efficacy etc)? Are there any shareware/PD drivers available that would do the job? If none of the above is any good, how hard is it to write a printer driver that simply does text streaming and recognises the lPrReset, lPrLineFeed, lPrLFSixth amd lPrPageEnd iPrDevCtl parameters? Finally, is it possible to simply send ASCII out through one of the serial ports and ignore the printer manager ? (I know that this is undesirable, but the product is a one off and the simplest possible solution is the one desired) Thanks for any reviews/recommendations, estimates of time required or simple answers to any of the questions above, Simon Evans (@ JAM Software) Simon Evans ISD: +61 2 90-7031 or +61 2 799-1696 c/o JAM Software Pty Ltd STD: (02) 90-7031 or (02) 799-1696 27A Nowranie Street ACS: sce@runx.ips.oz Summer Hill NSW 2130 UUCP: seismo!munnari!runx.ips.oz!sce AUSTRALIA ARPA: munnari!runx.ips.oz!sce@SEISMO