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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ProWriter Printer Driver
Message-ID: <23394@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 08:21:36 GMT
References: <22640@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
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Kent D. Polk in <22640@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> asks about C.Itoh ProWriter
(presumably model 8510B) printer drivers for the Amiga and 1.3.

What I've been using for QUITE some time is:

CLI2> ls -l devs:printers
----ar-e- 88-09-06 21:20:34    7     3300 Diablo_630
----ar-e- 88-09-06 21:20:50   12     5732 Diablo_C-150
----ar-e- 88-09-06 21:21:24   11     5440 Okimate_20
----ar-e- 87-04-05 21:47:29    7     3248 PROWRITER
----ar-e- 88-09-06 21:20:57   14     7024 Xerox_4020
Dirs:0    Files:5    Blocks:51    Bytes:24744   
CLI2> 

Considering that back then I had been using Manx exclusively (I now also have
Lattice), it must have been compiled using Manx.  This driver does graphics
dumps even under 1.3 with NO problems ... it doesn't do italics, but the
printer itself doesn't have a built-in italic character set.

I don't understand Kent's:
	"Is there a 1.3 compatible ProWriter driver out
	there that supports more than the lowest resolution?"

When in "binary bit map" mode, the printer has but one resolution, so I don't
see how the "DENSITY" (in Preferences Graphic Screen 2) is relevant.

Kent continues:
	"Is there any source code that is close which I could 	look at (Manx),
	because I really would like to figure this thing out."

How would you like it?  Posted, email, uuencoded, tar'd (and feathered :-) ?

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]