>> There are several Printer SDK out there. Search on PalmGear.
>
>There are a number of royalty-bearing products out there. No need to go to
>PalmGear though - just drop a line to this list, and wait for the vendors to
>tout for trade.
>
>But if the thought of a $40 fee on top of your $20 product is too much to
>bear, you might find yourself rolling your own.
I'm belatedly responding to this. I'm not familiar with the pricing of
competitive products, but I can speak with authority on our own
(PalmPrint/SCS PrintServer), and licensing print driver software doesn't
cost anything like $40 a copy. So while there certainly are reasons for
"rolling your own", for most people, cost will not be among them. Letting
someone else do the printing software lets you concentrate on your own
application development, rather than reinventing the wheel, and means
that when new technologies (e.g., IrDA) or new printers (e.g., Monarch
6015) come onto the market, someone else is effectively updating that
aspect of your application for you.
Please note that the author of the above statements has a financial
interest in their content and cannot be taken to be an unbiased source.
:-)
Development details ("SDK") for PalmPrint/SCS PrintServer can be found at
http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm/palmprintdev.html
Licensing fees are NOT discussed there, but can be discussed privately by
email or at PalmSource.
Steve Patt
President, Stevens Creek Software
http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm
Best PQA ("ePQA"), PalmSource 99
Best Application ("PizzaScan"), Palm Developer's Conference 1998
First printing software for the Palm - September, 1997
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