From: federico@heinz.com (Federico Heinz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: F. HEINZ Consultora announces Dots 3.5.5, featuring support for Epson Stylus Color Date: 16 Dec 1994 23:37:08 -0500 Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Reply-To: info@heinz.com F. HEINZ Consultora Announces Dots 3.5.5 F. HEINZ Consultora announces the availability of version 3.5.5 of Dots, the printer driver for non-PostScript printers under NEXTSTEP. This version features support for the Epson Stylus and Epson Stylus Color printers, as well as enhanced suport for other ESC/P2 printers and minor bug fixes. The multi-architecture program for Motorola and Intel hardware and sample files may be retrieved by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware /printer/Dots3.5.5-Readme.rtf ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware /printer/Dots.3.5.5.NI.b.tar.gz and from other NEXTSTEP archive sites. The program works in demo mode until properly licensed. Pricing information is available on request from the addresses listed below. ====================================================================== Welcome to Dots 3.5.5 Dots is a printer driver for bitmap printers under NeXTSTEP. It supports a wide range of printers of different technologies, including impact dot matrix, ink-jet, laser printers and dye sublimation printers. Dots supports all standard paper formats and even non-standard ones, as long as they make sense on your printer. Depending on your printer's capabilities, more than one resolution may be available. Of course, the printout pages come out of the printer in the right order, and thanks to NeXT's unified imaging model, Dots works with all applications, and produces the best-quality graphics your printer is capable of putting on paper. Installing and configuring printers for use with Dots is a simple matter of point-and-click. You can export printers to a NetInfo domain, and modify a printer's configuration at any time. Dots is seamlessly integrated into the NeXTSTEP environment, allowing you to print on any one of the supported printers using the standard Print panel and its Options subpanel. In addition to the standard NeXTSTEP configuration and print options, Dots offers an alternate interface to provide fine control over print job parameters and in particular printer-specific features though feature inspectors that pop up immediately before the document starts printing. For those "printers" that happen to be copiers, Dots supports scanning as well, allowing you to exploit the device's full potential. Dots currently supports the following printers: 24-pin impact dot-matrix printers: Epson NEC PinWriter IBM ProPrinter XL24 Ink-jet printers: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Plus Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500C Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550C Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1200C Hewlett-Packard PaintJet XL Hewlett-Packard PaintJet XL300 Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 600 Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 650 Canon BJ-300/330 Canon BJ-10/10e/10ex Epson Stylus Epson Stylus Color Laser printers: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II Hewlett-Packard LaserJet III Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IV Dye sublimation printers: Seiko PhotoMaker Copiers: Canon CLC10 (aka CJ-10) Canon CLC300 Canon CLC500 Other printers may work as well, provided they are compatible to at least one printer from the above list. Dots will drive any and all of the above printers. Just plug it to the computer, create a Dots printer for it, and you are set. By default, Dots will drive the printer in demo mode. Demo mode means that Dots will work just as usual, but it will print a diagonal line over each page, and a banner at its bottom. To get the printer to work in regular mode, you must purchase a License ID for it, which you can get from your NEXTSTEP software dealer, or from one of the addresses listed under the heading "Purchase information" in the on-line help. A License ID entitles you to use Dots to drive one printer, you will need a separate License ID for each printer you want to use, even if more than one is of the same type. About F. HEINZ Consultora F. HEINZ Consultora is a privately-held network consulting and software development company located in Cordoba, Argentina. We are committed to the production of high-quality solutions for NEXTSTEP users and developers, and to the development and deployment of NEXTSTEP-based customer solutions. Our product line currently includes Dots, the printer driver for non-PostScript printers under NEXTSTEP, and InterfaceViewer, the user interface documentation program for NEXTSTEP developers. FOR MORE INFORMATION contact us at our development labs in F. HEINZ Consultora Benigno Acosta 4528 5009 V. Centenario Cordoba, Argentina Tel+Fax: (+54 51) 81 75 97 E-Mail: info@heinz.com