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Re: Printing gripe
« on: February 05, 2007, 12:50:21 PM »
Its certainly possible, I could modify my Laserjet driver to use the Duplex (Esc&l1S) option for all prints.
 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2007, 07:28:22 PM »
Yes, your Brother HL-1240 is HP PCL 4 compatible but it is NOT a duplex printer, you can only duplex manually via the manual paper feed tray. You need a hardware addon to do automatic duplexing (w/o manual intervention).

My Brother HL -1270N does not do auto duplex either so I cannot test the driver. I will let you know when its ready, it will be uploaded to Aminet.
 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 07:21:46 PM »
IF you want to print just Odd pages and then Even pages, then a new driver will not help. That is down to the application to specify which pages to print, a driver prints text or graphics, it knows nothing of pages other than a form feed or to print on other side. You normally specify which pages to print in the Print dialog box, a driver cannot do that. Sorry.

 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 11:09:43 PM »
These settings are unique to the application such as Even, Odd, page no to page no or All. Sometimes the setting will equate to a printer preference such as the color or orientation but usually its application specific.

Settings for a printer driver globally are set in the Printer or PrinterGfx preferences program such as color or b/w, portrait or landscape, dithering, density, the port, the text quality and so on. Those settings can be converted to the drivers own commands usually in ESC/P2, PCL or Postscript.
These printer settings can be stored in memory in the printer preferences defined in AmigaOS which can be applied to any kind of printer - inkjet, dot matrix, laser and so on.
 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2007, 04:15:45 PM »
I have uploaded a new Laserjet_D (PCL 5) printer driver onto Aminet. I just appear in listings in a day or so.

The driver is based on my older Laserjet III driver but it now supports 600 dpi on highest density settings and will print on both sides of paper (if the printer supports auto-duples), and will eject the paper correctly this time, even in Winuae. Tested on Multiview and Wordworth 5.
 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2007, 07:38:55 PM »
No, the HP-1018 is a Host based printer and will not work with the Amiga Printer driver system.

Specs are here (see http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328059-14638-3328066-1814092.html)
 

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Re: Printing gripe
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2007, 05:12:40 PM »
It is possible to print to ethernet over TCP/IP by using the Networking Printer Client from Aminet - NetParLpr.lha.