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- Panasonic 9-pin Printer Driver
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- Who?
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- © 1991 Charles Rentmeesters
- Much thanks to Symantec for providing such a wonderful C compiler
- and environment for the Macintosh. And thanks of course to Apple
- Computer for producing such a good computer.
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- What?
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- "Chuck's Printer Driver" is a printer driver -- chooser device for
- using Panasonic 9-pin printers (and compatables) with your Macintosh
- computer. It has been tested on a Macintosh SE (systems 5.0 through
- 6.0.7, English and Kanji versions), with a Panasonic KX-P1080i
- printer. It prints in Text (draft or NLQ) mode and Graphics (Low,
- Medium, and High) modes. It is FreeWare, I do not expect any money,
- but it would be nice to hear what you think of it, and what I should
- add.
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- How?
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- You can use the printer driver by dropping it into your system
- folder, and selecting it from the chooser desk accessory. You should
- also take time to choose the set-up option in chooser so that the
- printer driver knows how to access your printer.
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- Where?
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- I can mostlikely be reached by internet e-mail to
- roach@khan.cs.wisc.edu, I read this mail approximately once a day,
- and will respond via internet e-mail usually within a day. I can
- also be reached my US mail:
- Charles Rentmeesters
- 410 North Carroll St
- Madison, WI 53703
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- Why?
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- After receiving the 9-pin Grappler interface, and being disappointed
- in the way that it handled things, I decided to write my own printer
- driver in software. A software version would have more options and
- control over the original printer, where the Grappler only used the
- Imagewriter driver and did conversion in hardware. I thought this
- was a tremendous kludge. Yes, Apple Computer doesn't really support
- people writing their own printer drivers, but since they didn't
- provide a good selection of printer drivers, it's up to us
- programmers.
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- When?
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- Version 0.1 is available now. New versions will be released when
- I receive enough feedback to release a new version.
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