Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!apollo!nelson_p
From: nelson_p@apollo.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: printer utility
Message-ID: <4401c9b8.c9b9@apollo.COM>
Date: 23 Jun 89 18:45:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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    I have an XT clone (Leading Edge, model 'D') with a
    hercules-sytle graphics interface.   I like the relatively
    hi-res, sharp monochrome display, but there's one problem
    I haven't solved.   My Panasonic dot-matrix printer is 
    capable of doing some crude dot-matrix graphics and I've
    experimentally written software to output lines and so
    forth to it.   But there appears to be no readback path
    from the display so I can't see any way to output graphics
    that I generate to the printer.   If I ever get a laser 
    or Deskjet printer this will be an even bigger problem.

    Most of the graphics I generate are from calls to library
    routines in Microsoft QuickC.  Do I have to make some kind
    of a printer analogue to each one of these calls that 
    intercepts the parameters and outputs to the printer 
    instead (or first)?  Does anyone sell a commercial package
    that handles this problem?   Thanks in advance.

                                    ---Peter