Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,connect.audit
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Colour printing from windows?
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.142119.6859@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1990Dec18.074729.14547@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 90 14:21:19 GMT

>	I have a Citizen swift 24 colour printer, and have discovered that
>the paint program supplied with windows 3.0 doesn't print out in colour,
>even though I have the recommended driver for the Citizen Epson emulation
>with its colour option installed.

In looking at the SDL (Supplemental Disk Library?) from Microsoft there are
(on disk 4) a couple of interesting files called genlib.dll and dmcolor.dll.
I asked Microsoft about these and they didn't have any documentation specific
to these. Poking around oemsetup.inf on this disk inticates that they
are used by the Brother 9 and 24 pin printer drivers and the Star 24 pin
printer driver and partially (genlib) by the Star 9 pin driver.

My guess is that there are two possibilities... 

The first is that these might be the first printer drivers that CAN print
colour from WIndows apps like PaintBrush

The second and unfortunately the more likely is that the genlib and dmcolor
DLL's are seperated from the drivers because they are going to be common
between all drivers so why reproduce them over and over....

What I would like is someone with the Color Brother printers or the Color
24 pin Star printers to test out these drivers and report back to the net
letting others know whats up...

I got sdldisk4.zip from anonymous ftp at cica.cica.indiana.edu
in the /pub/pc/win3/sdl area.

I might even sell my slug printer and get the Star 24 pin colour if it really
does the ticket...

tj