Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-02-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Geoff Wicks wrote: I think we need to stop looking at which individual printers are compatible, and look for structural solutions. This is one of the reasons I welcomed Marcel's article and felt it needed a wider distribution than the German QL Today. It is worth reading, particularly if

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 07:19 ðì 31/1/2002 +, you wrote: Don't quote me on this - it's too early in the morning - but I believe that some progress has been made with some winprinters under linux. The problem as I understand it is that unless you are running windows one size definitely does not fit all as the

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Marcel is right... every printer manufacturer does things differently, the point is though that every manufacturer has a uniform way of addressing their models line (no point of reinventing the wheel even for a company the size of Epson), so if we could emulate at least ONE we would be

RE: Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Ian . Pine
: tony Sent: 31 January 2002 16:27 To: ql-users Cc: tony Subject: Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator Marcel is right... every printer manufacturer does things differently, the point is though that every manufacturer has a uniform way of addressing their models

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Graf wrote: Reminds my of USB. Not few folks think you just need USB for SMSQ/E and - voila - you can use all USB devices. Probably because Windows comes with all sorts of standard drivers so that many things work out of the box. [Ghostscript] Main drawback is that postscript

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Anthony
Damn, just read Marcels' succint reply.. Tony Gordon

[ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Christopher Cave
In-Reply-To: Hb5f11edd071.1012496760.ln4p1327.ldn.swissbank.com@MHS I still have some printers that are pre-Win, so no problem yet on that score but I would like to know whether the Deskjet range of printers supports PCLn for some n and what emulations (e.g. Epson) they do? Weren't there

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Marcel is right... every printer manufacturer does things differently, the point is though that every manufacturer has a uniform way of addressing their models line (no point of reinventing the wheel even for a company the size of Epson), so if we could emulate at

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:48 PM In-Reply-To: Hb5f11edd071.1012496760.ln4p1327.ldn.swissbank.com@MHS I still have some printers that are pre-Win, so no problem yet on that score but I would like to know

[ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-30 Thread Anthony
Has anyone come across a QDOS port of nenscript - a creator of postscript format files? I believe it has been done. Tony Gordon

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone come across a QDOS port of nenscript - a creator of postscript format files? I believe it has been done. None that I now of. The only ASCII-PS converter I know for SMS is MPS, but then I did this port (there wasn't much to do) myself. BTW: I thought your

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Theoretically it's possible to use Win printers under SMS if we just knew what the 1@##!@$$% they were getting from the GDI... Of course this is possible. You just need to write a different driver for every printer and hey, we have printer support. Have fun. ;-)

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-30 Thread Peter Graf
Marcel wrote: Theoretically it's possible to use Win printers under SMS if we just knew what the 1@##!@$$% they were getting from the GDI... Of course this is possible. You just need to write a different driver for every printer and hey, we have printer support. Have fun. ;-) Reminds my of