> I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first. It's worse than that. I've tried to get many different printers working under Linux (which generally has pretty good hardware support) and it turns out that a lot of manufacturers cut corners on their devices and don't support standard print protocols like PostScript or PCL, and instead use a lightweight translation layer to pass the drawing calls in the Windows API over to the hardware.
It basically means there are a number of (usually cheap) printers out there that will only work under Windows. So even if you do manage to get USB drivers, chances are slim you can get it to print. If you can find a modern printer that supports both PostScript and PCL, there's a fair chance that you can still get a parallel port interface adapter for it too so you won't need the USB drivers anyway. They're usually aimed at industrial/point-of-sale type users where the modern equipment still all uses the traditional interfaces. Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
