Prove me wrong but most of the "documents" would be a listing here and a small letter there. These can be printed without a problem using the small driver utilities we have for HP and Epson.
Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities which we have, unless you have specific printers - most modern, low cost printers (eg 99% of the EPSON range) will only print graphics !! They do not recognise a string of plain ASCII text sent to them - this is why we are faced with the problem!
Exactly this is the problem - and even if some of them are able to print plain ASCII - this still does not help people with t87 documents etc ... we're NOT all using PC programs - my manuals are still printed from text87, and again - the text87patch shows that I'm not the only one having this problem.
Printing is one of the biggest problems, as far as I can gather from customer emails and phone calls.
You cannot imagine how many people just go out and buy a printer,
and then wonder why QPC does not print anything anymore.
Well, it has been written many times in QL Today and in the newsgroup
etc. - but you just don't find a printer in the media stores anymore which is useable for us...
There is also another problem: the interface. QPC prints, fortunately, to printers connected via USB, parallel port and serial port, PROVIDED they "understand" printing commands. Well, have a look at current printers and you see the problem: most of them come with USB only. There are adaptors USB to parallel and USB to serial, but the other way round...? I guess that non-QPC users will soon have a second problem in addition to the printer-language problem: how do I connect a printer with USB to the Aurora or Q40/Q60?
Jochen
