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- From: reeuwijk@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl (Kees van Reeuwijk)
- Subject: Re: Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500C help wanted!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.213118.16225@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <JFyLVB1w165w@midiline.la.ca.us>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:31:18 GMT
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- In <JFyLVB1w165w@midiline.la.ca.us> jared@midiline.la.ca.us (Luposian Knightwolf) writes:
-
- >As of tonight, I finally figured out why my 500C wasn't communicating
- >very well with my MEGA ST. After it prints out a text file from the
- >desktop (the only thing I can do, since I haven't a 500C printer driver
- >for 1st Word, and attempting to do a screen print produces nothing but
- >letters and graphic gobble-de-gook), it takes about 10-20 seconds to
- >retract the head to "home". Since I wasn't waiting for it to do that,
- >assuming I could print the next file right after the previous one was
- >finished, the ST sent the print command, the 500C wouldn't reply (as it
- >was busy getting ready to go "home", and the whole deal goes dead. The
- >ST considers the printer non-existant and no way of recovery.
- >
- >But now that's all been taken care of, thanks to my ever-persistant
- >nature. What I need now is this:
- >
- >Does anyone know how to write up a HP Deskjet 500 printer driver for 1st
- >Word? (not 1st Word Plus) I'd really appreciate it. BTW, is there any
- >way a screen print is possible between the ST and the 500C? Maybe
- >someone could write up a program to make use of the 500C's color
- >capacity? It's a thought... I'd sure buy it! (i.e. pay good money for
- >it)
-
- There is a 1st Word Plus printer driver for the HP DJ 500 (without the
- 'C'). Surely that will work on a 'C' one? You can find it on atari.archive.
- Apart from that, it is quite simple to write your own printer driver for
- 1st WP+. The package has documentation on
- the printer description files on one of the disks, and the HP DJ manual is
- quite good (if it is as good as my DJ 'classic' one). You might consider
- using some of the less useful special effects in 1st WP+ for color
- printing.
-
-
- =-=-=-=
- C. van Reeuwijk e-mail: C.vReeuwijk@ET.TUDelft.NL
-