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- From: rwilson@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Ron Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Buffering in software
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.194154.2819@uts.cc.wayne.edu>
- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit Mich.
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:41:54 GMT
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- In article <r75mztd.payner@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes
- >In article <1992Aug11.170916.7237@serveme.chi.il.us> kgapp@gagme (Kevin Gapp) writes:
- >>Sean Eller writes
- >>
- >>>
- >>>Hi, I'm tired of sitting waiting for this damn imagewriter to print from
- >>>AWGS and was wondering instead of buying a 32k buffer for the printer if
- >>>there had been a program written that say intercepts the port calls for the
- >>>printer and stores the data in a buffer and prints from a buffer in memory.
- >>>Working in the background off of interupts. The concept seems simple, I
- >>>just don't know if it's been done or if it's even possible to catch stuff
- >>>going out to the printer. Has anyone tried this? Thanks..
- >>>Sean
- >>
- >>Yes, it is possible, and yes there is a program to do it. It is called
- >>Express and is published by Seven Hills Software. It is GS specific and
- >>runs under GS/OS, and does just what you need. It is comparable to all
- >>the expensive print spoolers for the MAC, and it is only $29.95 from Seven
- >>Hills. Check out a copy of Incider and look for it in the ads.
- >
- >If he has an IM2, there is (or was), a 32K print buffer card available.
- >Wonder if they still make it?
-
- Orange Micro (makers of the Grappler) had an ImageWriter Buffer, but they
- stopped making it several years ago, claiming there wasn't any real market
- for it. The Orange Micro ImageBuffer offered more features than did the one
- offered from Apple. including being expandable to 64k and, I believe,
- 128k (4 256k chips). They occasionally turn up for sale at local computer
- swap shows. Also, Quality Computers sells Q-Buffer, an internal 32k Imagewriter
- printer buffer (about $60).
-