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From: aj4640@dean1.usma.edu (Robertson John MAJ)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Xerox 4045 Driver again
Message-ID: <237@dean1.usma.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 14:40:12 GMT
Reply-To: aj4640@dean1.acd.usma.edu
Organization: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
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About two months ago, I posted a query regarding drivers which
would talk to a Xerox 4045 laser printer.

I received a number of responses.  There is at least on site with a driver
but it used some specially made fonts, not the "usual" ones. 
Other than that, the other suggestions were to purchase a special 
cartridge that would allow the 4045 to emulate a HP LaserJet.

Neither of those solutions was satisfactory.  Instead, it turned out 
that one of the drivers in Beebe's release series (for the GOLDEN-
DAWN printer) used an encoding scheme similar to, but not identical 
with the Xerox scheme.  Unfortunately, the GOLDENDAWN died a quiet
death some time ago and Beebe indicated that that code was not
well checked.  It was a start.  And now it works.  So, if you have
the beebe 2.10 driver package, all you need is dvixrx.c :-)

I will happily provide the source to anyone who wants it.  The 2.10 
package is available via ftp from somewhere, so that I can't send out.

Jack Robertson