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. Lines: 30 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. -- ----------- Signature Version 0.5 (aka Fine, be that way. )----------------- bear@bucsb.bu.edu bear@bucsf.bu.edu bear@buengf.bu.edu bear@bu-pub.bu.edu enge05c@buacca.bu.edu (Short enough for you?)