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From: gpw@ihlpf.UUCP (Wilkin)
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Subject: Re: Printer-Code Interceptor
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 19:05:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 19:05:24 1986
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> I'm looking for a daemon or some such thing to sit out in the memory of
> an IBM PC-XT and intercept-then-translate characters being sent to the 
> printer.
> 
> What the story is, is that a friend bought his son an XT and a Toshiba
> "3-in-one" printer. The printer does great letter-quality stuff, but
> we're talking a 15 year old who wants something FUN and neat with graphs
> and pictures etc.... The printer emulates a QUME "Sprint" (I've never heard
> of it...) and doesn't like the output of most graphics printing programs.
> Therefore I was elected (my friend's company is going to pay for my next
> 
> KENNETH E. WALKER
> Office of Computing Services
> Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ccastkw

Qume is the name of an outfit that sold many many daisy wheel printers.
There is a company which I have seen in PC or BYTE, which makes a 
software program to download the IBM fonts. They also allow graphics
to be printed. Maybe someone could post the name, DTI ????
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