Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!venus!wfaust From: wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: RE: Whats the best printer for < $600? a.misc Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 02:53:26 GMT References: <20059118:41:50GB03@lehigh.bitnet> <1991May21.142906.15036@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 52 In article <1991May21.142906.15036@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes: >I just purchased a Canon BJ10e printer. It has 360x360 >dpi. Seems my email didn't made it to you... so here in public: I think the Deskjet is a bit more expensive than the BJ10e printer, but the Deskjet also offers you much more possibilities. I personaly would spend this extra money for a Deskjet... Both printers have superior price values. > There is a driver on Fred Fish 446 (or thereabouts :^)). Well I said this quite often: this is a BJ130 driver on Fish 446! You will run into problems in text mode on a BJ10! The current release of the BJ 130 driver is 7. A totaly new version 8 is send out to everybody who wants testing... Version 8 offers you a dramatic(!) speed increase (so far: no bugs found by the tester ;-), because graphics are dumped by mixing the printers text and graphic mode! Regarding the development of a BJ10 driver, this is currently on hold, because nobody want's to test my new version... shame on those BJ10 people... (I'm currently in talks with Canon UK, maybe I can get more support there... seems they know Amiga quite well... they already send me a manual... ;-) >I am having a little trouble with where it >(the driver?) starts printing on the page. It occasionaly skips >~2 inches at the top (bottom on PixelScript) of the page. This is surely not caused by the driver! Did you set the page offsets right in Pixelscript? Why do you use Pixelscript? Get yourself version 7 or 8 of the BJ driver. It's a workaround for the bug in Pagestreams 2.1 WB driver and offers you 360*360DPI... much faster! > If anyone has seen any other drivers for this series, I >would appreciate hearing about it. The dealer has sold several >of these printers. Start supporting me with testing and you get your BJ10 driver... I also would write a TeX driver and a CG-Font download program for the BJ 10e.... but I need somebody with a BJ10e for testing!! It could be so easy... where is that amiga community? > Jim Heath -- Wolf Faust cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!venus!wfaust Tel: +(49)69-5486556 FIDO: 2:243/43.5