There are several ways to print from the Psion, and the
simplest is to use a serial printer with the PsiWin lead. If that
isn't possible, there's always the Psion parallel lead. Other options centre
around using the serial lead connected to an Acorn RISC OS machine. The most
obvious way is to save a text file on the Psion, transfer it to the Acorn,
reformat it, and print that document. However, it can be tedious to reformat
something that you've already got looking fine on the Psion, and you'll lose
any graphics in the process.
A better way is to use S2P, a RISC OS application which will intercept anything
arriving via the serial port, and send it out through the parallel one. All
that is needed is to run it, set the baud rates and handshaking (I recommend
"Hardware" on the Acorn, and "RTS/CTS" on the Psion, which are
equivalent) to be the same, select an appropriate serial printer on the
Psion, and print. S2P is Freeware, written by Andrew Sellors.
You will need to make sure that the filer has "seen" SerialDev first, and in case you don't have a copy, there's one in the Connector archive you can download from here.
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