Printing gripe

[Cass]

However, I never had it directly connected to my Amiga (only ever printed to it across the network via a Linux box with CUPS running the lpr daemon, and the generic PostScript driver on the Amiga side).

I`ve been searching for a solution like that, is there a guide on how to print via eth ?

WinUAE supports Laser printing with Ghostscript on the PC side and PS driver on the Amiga side... (never tried this, so I don`t know if it works).

[Cass]

I have uploaded a new Laserjet_D (PCL 5) printer driver onto Aminet

Is it compatible with the HP-1018 Laser printer?

[Cass]

/me sad :-(

Not even a translator/intermediate program can do the job (the way should work WinUAE & Ghostscript)?


Just tried to print from WinUAE using GS. IT WORKS!
I`ve managed to print text & graphics.

Using the real thing should stream somehow the PS driver data to the GS installed on the PC -where the printer has the appropriate drivers-.


From the WinUAE help file:

Printing with WinUAE

Currently, there are 2 ways to print with WinUAE:

For the same way as classic a Amiga, you can set a parallel printer in the WinUAE settings tab Game & I/O Ports. Make sure Postscript  detection and Post Script Printer Emulation are not checked. If you use Windows 2000/XP, set the autoflush timeout to 2. Now you can save your config and can start WinUAE and do the rest on the Amiga. If you use turboprint, do not use the turboprint spooler and chose parallel port or turbopar for the print device. If you print something you should see an entry in the Windows printer spooler.
If you have a printer that the Amiga does not support, you can choose the Postscript output. For this you need to install GhostScript for Windows. In WinUAE, select the printer and check on  Postscript  detection and Post Script Printer Emulation. Note: You can not change these settings on the fly (when you press F12 during emulation).
Boot your emulated Amiga. There is a large probability that turboprint does not work with these printer settings, and prints out an empty page instead.
Remove turbostart if you have it and chose the Workbench Postscript Printer. Please note that the OS3.5 and OS3.9 drivers crash when you use greyscale or black and white. Choose color instead. Set it on all printer prefs pages. You can chose the real output format with the windows printer preferences.
Note: Most of the time it is enough to use the Workbench printer with 300 dpi. Higher resolutions may not produce an visible advantage, but definitely cost time and space.
The printer must dither colors, so it is important here to chose 600 or 1200 dpi on the Windows side.
If you really want greyscale and Black&White from the Amiga side, use the driver from OS3.1 which works. The OS3.5 and OS3.9 driver seem to have a compiler Bug, and this function also does not work on real Amigas.

[Cass]

 Might save a bit of time using ethernet instead of the slooOOow parallel port!

It's more a question of drivers than speed... (I'm patient ;-) ).

Anyhow, I 've found a solution, and it works GREAT! :-D