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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Printer-Code Interceptor
Message-ID: <583@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 16:26:08 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.583
Posted: Fri Mar 21 16:26:08 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 23:26:53 EST
References: <1565@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
Lines: 27
Keywords: daemon or some such thing
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In article <1565@gitpyr.UUCP> ccastkw@gitpyr.UUCP (KENNETH E. WALKER) writes:
>(* EAT ME *) or don't (* EAT ME *)
>
>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.

A Qume Sprint printer is a daisy-wheel, letter quality printer.  We have
two Qume Sprint 9s here.  That is one reason why it doesn't like graphics,
as it doesn't support graphics.  If the Toshiba is a dot-matrix printer,
you will need to find the mode that is NOT Sprint compatible.

Sorry that I can't give you any more information, as I don't know the
Toshiba printer.  Just wanted to tell you about the Qume printer.
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