Ben, Yes, some time ago I had a complaint from an acquaintance who couldn't use their HP Deskjet with DOS, and ever since then, when I shop for printers, I make sure that DOS compatibility is explicitly listed on the box. Sometimes it costs me an extra buck (or 50) but I avoid the "Designed for Windows!" logo like the plague.
It may not be possible to do that forever, but for the moment all my printers will accept old fashioned ASCII data. Regards, Garry * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [SURVPC] BL2 Wordprocessing > > BTW: I heard that printing text (8bit characters and accompanied with > > formatting and font information) is no longer supported by the latest > > printer hardware. > > On some level it must be possible to generate output on such devices, > but with a *lot* of work; it's probably impossible within the printer > definition files, but perhaps someone could write a TSR that converts, > say, the Epson LQ escape codes into the right sort of gunk to feed the > printer transparently. The HP DeskJet 720C I have at home is a printer > that won't accept plain ASCII text, and requires the HP drivers to do > anything; it wasn't supported at all under Linux when we bought it, not > sure if someone's worked out how to drive it since then. > > Regards, > Ben A L Jemmett. > (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
