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From: svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Deskwriter usage
Summary: Problems with LL Printing
Message-ID: <16524@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 5 Mar 90 17:49:54 GMT
References: <256@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <256@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> heather@merlin.bcm.tmc.edu () writes:
>Does anyone know how I can get my HP Deskwriter to print from
>Microphone II version 2.0?  Is there a patch I can get by ftp
>and if so from where ?  
>
	Unfortunately there is not 'patch' to solve this problem as this is
an HP problem.  The HP Deskwriter printer driver is not a full featured driver
as are the Apple drivers, and most other third parties.  
	On the Macintosh there are two different forms of printing, page based
and line based.  The former is how most Macintosh applications print (ie. they
image a whole page all at once), on the other hand communications applications
(among others) can only image one line at a time (known as streaming). HP
decided that they knew printing better than Apple and as such they only support
the 'Page Based' printing modal.  MicroPhone II 2.0 uses the line based modal
and as such won't print to the Deskwriter.
	Our only recommendations at this time are to a) Harrass HP into fixing
their Printer Driver and b) Upgrade to MicroPhone II v3.0 which now supports
the page based modal for some of its printing needs.

Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
MicroPhone II Development Team


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