Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!bucsb!bear
From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Printer Driver Generator (was Re: Prt Dr Raven PR-2417)
Message-ID: <3319@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 15:10:11 GMT
References: <535@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <535@mindlink.UUCP> a46@mindlink.UUCP (Robin Ritchey) writes:
>
>        I am having problems locating a good printer driver for the Raven
>PR-2417.  This printer is made by Roland Digital Group.  It is a 24 pin
>printer.
>
The recent few articles concerning printer drivers has prompted me
to stick in a few hundred pesos worth.  Personally, I have an
ALPS P2400C with the 18 pin printhead.  It works.  The output from
Pagestream at density 7 is actually pretty good.  But one page can
take up to 10 minutes to print.  The EpsonX driver only uses 9
of the 18 pins.  It seems to me that a custom driver using 18 pins
could cut the print time in half.  Now, I have priced the 24 pin
Epson LQ upgrade for my printer and the only place I found it at
want $265 for it.  YECH!!  It lists for $395!  I could buy a new
printer for that.
   Now, here's the suggestion: Some ambitious programmer out there
should write a good driver creation program.  I've seen the PD
one for 1.2 and it's a bear to use aside from it being 1.2.  CBM
writes their drivers somehow.  Maybe they could enlighten us as
to how they did it.  Failing that, maybe the author of the PD driver
generator program could release the source so we could hack it
to 1.3.



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