Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:14698 alt.sys.sun:2187 comp.sources.wanted:14286 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!opusc!bea!tim From: tim@bea.hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.sys.sun,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: sun rasterfile --> Calcomp Colorview filter wanted Keywords: sun rasterfile Calcomp Colorview HCBS Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 00:46:13 GMT References: <725@keele.keele.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Usenet news system) Organization: Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: 129.252.1.3 cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) writes: >I need a program that will take in a Sun rasterfile and produce >output to drive a Calcomp Colorview Thermal Printer. There has been a note on the Calcomp BBS in Anaheim for quite a while about a future printcap for SunOS. I doubt if we will see this anytime soon. Calcomp let every software analyst they had in the field go a few months back. By the way in your post you mention hcbs. You should be using the chcbs if you want to get all the capabilities out of the colorview. You only 16 pens with the hcbs as opposed to 1024. Also if you just want to send raster data to the 5912/5913 you don't have to have the calcomp libraries. You could just send scan lines with the appropos opcode at the front of each record. Should be in the software side of your manual. I hope you have a parallel port..... :-) Tim -- ============================================================================== Tim White University of South Carolina tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory (803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208