In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On 25 Nov 2004 at 15:52, Rich Mellor wrote:
I am glad to see that this has at least inspired some interest and
hopefully we will see the beginnings of some work towards an actual
product - although we still have no confirmation that Proforms can output
to a Windows only printer - if not, we may be in trouble. Surely someone
has access to one of the cheap Epsons on a PC and can install QPC2 plus
Linedesign and see if they can print something direct to that printer
successfully. If there are no volunteers, guess I could always go and buy
one for �40 or so just to try it.
Don't even bother. There is no Proforma driver for GDI printers, so no output
to them.
Remember, each different GDI printer needs its own driver...
I have mentioned this so many times. ProForma as it stands will only print to printers for which it has drivers and there are no ESC/P raster drivers. The cheap printers have no emulations. Even the expensive printers often have no emulations and some that have ESC/P2 - like my C80 - print from the QL and from Q40 but not from QPC2 which will happily print to the EPL 6200 using ESC/P2. It is a veritable minefield.
Look at Brother printers with DOS support. There are still quite a few options. Maybe not the very cheapest ones, but there really is a lot of choice. There are still a lot of legacy DOS applications around.
Now obviously, these don't support ESC/P2, but I think they have some PCL variant.
Joachim
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