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From: akw@osupyr.UUCP (Andrew Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Printer driver for Panasonic KX-P1091.
Message-ID: <361@osupyr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 10:27:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: osupyr.361
Posted: Mon Jun  8 10:27:59 1987
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In article <8706070221.AA15935@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes:
>Art Price writes:
>
>>   I am looking for a printer driver to use with an Atari 800XL, the
>
>Art, I think what you need is a printer "interface" (a hardware device),
>not a "driver" (a word used to describe the short piece of machine-language
>code used to send characters to the interface).
>
>In the Atari 8-bitters, the printer driver software is built right into
>the operating system, which resides in the Read-Only Memory (ROM) at the top
>of the 64K address space.  If you buy or build a standard printer interface,

Yes and no.  You will need a hardware interface for the Panasonic-to-Atari8bit
connection, but you will need a software driver for Atariwriter.  Yes, there
is a generic printer DEVICE in the ROMs of the 8bits, but the printer driver
for AtariWriter supports different typestyles (bold, underline, double-strike,
pica, elite, etc) and other printer control codes that are supported by Atari
Writer.  I would suggest, Art, that you contact Atari or Antic.  Antic used
to publish the different PD AtariWriter printer interfaces a while back; I
haven't read Antic in awhile so I wouldn't know.

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