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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ProWriter Printer Driver
Message-ID: <22765@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 18:51:32 GMT
References: <22640@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <23394@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <23394@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>> 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.

8510A circa 1982 - I didn't know there was a 'B' Model. As someone
mentioned in a response, I'd get an updated printer, but this thing
won't wear out & I can't justify one until it does :^)

>What I've been using for QUITE some time is:
>
>----ar-e- 87-04-05 21:47:29    7     3248 PROWRITER

Mine - circa 8-86:
  CItohProwriter              ---ar-e-    3292    7  24-May-89 18:28:58

>[...] 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.

Mine works under 1.3, but never did graphics very good. Takes two
passes to complete a line & thus leaves a vertical trail about 3/4th's
the way across the page where the second pass occured.

>> [...]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.

Mine has four resolutions when in "Bit Image Graphics" mode:
         Pitch              Dots Per Inch  Dots Per Line
  10 CPI (Pics)                  80            640
  12 CPI (Elite)                 96            786
  17 CPI (Compressed print)     136           1088
  Proportional Spacing          160           1280
(from p.3-43 Users Manual)
Graphics resolution is set by changing the print pitch.

Last year someone posted a prowriter driver which he said supported 3
densities, so i downloaded it. Unfortunately, it was exactly the same
file as mine (checked it 3 times to make sure I wasn't screwing up), so
I figure he sent the wrong one. Unfortunately, I could not reach him to
inform him of the mistake and never pursued the problem since I didn't
use graphics much with this printer. Well my wife has taken an
attraction to ProWrite & I sure wish I could get decent output at a
higher density from it now. (Use ProScript for important stuff)

>>	"Is there any source code that is close which I could look at (Manx),
>How would you like it?  Posted, email, uuencoded, tar'd (and feathered :-) ?

shar'ed or zoo'ed,uuencoded & Emailed, Please.