Phillip: I already checked the www.linuxprinting.org website. No support for Toshiba P351 in CUPS or Foomatic. They don't even list the Toshiba brand at all.
If I knew how to write a printer driver for either Linux or Windows, and it wasn't too difficult, I'd do it and give the printer driver away to the world. There must be a fair number of Toshiba P351, P351SX, Tandy DMP2100, etc. still out there and still functional. BTW, the Tandy DMP2100 was a rebranded Toshiba. I remember one of the places I worked in college bought a Tandy DMP2100 (the boss was a Tandy computer fanboy), and I was tasked with writing some custom printing software to print out and enumerate charity event tickets. Using Tandy Basic and the DMP2100 manual, in about 6 hours of programming I had some awesome looking tickets. But that was ROM Basic, pre-PC, and oh-so-long ago... I've never written a device driver for Windows or Linux before, only DOS. So the learning curve might be a bit much for me, unless someone knows of a "fill-in-the-table-cells-and-then-compile" approach to it. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:10 AM Subject: [PEDA] Re[2]: Printer Driver (was - Protel EDA Forum... was adjacent component placement D XP) > > Ivan, > > It may be worth a quick check of the Linux world. You may be able to > find source code that may be (mostly) adaptable. There are several books > on writing windows device drivers out there. With a bit of cutting > and pasting from one into the other, you may get something that will work. > > I'm also wondering, if there is native Linux support for this printer, > if might be possible to run SAMBA on a Linux box as a print server. > This might not solve all the problems, as I'm not sure how much a > local App/OS may need to know about a shared network printers > resources, in order to print to it. May still need a local printer > driver, not quite sure how this works. Ideas, anyway. > > ---Phil * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
