Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bumby From: bumby@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Needed: printer codes for a wide variety of printers Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 18:56:13 GMT References: <3550@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <1991Jun27.042738.18050@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 xsession@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (X session) writes: >There is this one program that supports a multi- mega- tude of printers >and that is Word Perfect. >It comes with zillions of printer defs and the program ptr.exe . . . Why should this be? This sounds like there are facilities to support current printers. But there are some obsolete printers that still work, and there are new printers coming out all the time that do more than just emulate some existing standard. For example, the version of quattro that I bought a couple of years ago allows me to select the graphics printer that I will be using by name -- giving me no clue whether I can build files to be printed on my Prism 80, and little guidance in getting the best results on by Canon BJ-10e. Wouldn't it be better if the interface used a printcap file that could be modified by the user. Several samples for the currently popular printers could be supplied. -- R. T. Bumby ** Rutgers Math || Amer. Math. Monthly Problems Editor bumby@math.rutgers.edu || P.O. Box 10971 New Brunswick, NJ08906-0971 bumby@dimacs.rutgers.edu || Phone: [USA] 908 828 0277 * FAX 908 932 5530