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From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Printer Driver Generator
Message-ID: <732@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 14:05:29 GMT
References: <1171@convex.UUCP> <16269@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Organization: Friends of Guru Bob
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In article <16269@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> you write:
>I am the (un)lucky owner of two unsupported printers with regards to
	   ^^ How wrong you are...
>the Amiga - a Prowriter & a Radio Shack GCP220 Color Inkjet.

I borrowed a CGP 220 from work and put together a driver for it using
PrtDrvGen so that I could use it to print color graphics.  The color driver
that I have now works with Commodore's screen dump utility, Deluxe Photolab's
Poster program, and a third party screen dumper that dumps everything at
four times normal size.  I am VERY pleased with the results.  The only problem
with the driver is that it doesn't really support text at all, I pretty much
skipped that portion of the driver creation because it didn't interest me.

Since your posting indicates that you don't know how to do the color you can
just use mine for that portion of it and fill in the text portion that you
do know.  I'll send what I've got to comp.binaries.amiga today.

Quick plug:
As a discontinued printer the CGP 220 can usually be had for a song ($100-150)
and it is INCREDIBLY inexpensive to run because it uses ink jet cartridges
that last forever.  The cartridges and paper for the printer are still
orderable through the Radio Shack catalog and if you can get the paper rolls
you can do really neat posters with a minimal amount of work.

John Munsch