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On my 1200 OS 3.1, I just use postscript and print TCPIP to a linux box that does postscript to my printers (as neither of my printers have postscript built in) and that works fine...

Or so I think.. ;-)

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Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1230/28 - 4G CF, MAS Player, ext floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 500 w/ 2M CHIP and 8M FAST RAM, DCTV, AEHD floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 1000 w/ 4M FAST RAM, DUAL CF hard drives, external floppy.
 

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Re: Any chance of HP LaserJet and overall improved printer support?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2014, 04:08:33 AM »
If you have a printer that only has Windows drivers and you have a windows machine handy, just use the windows machine as a postscript gateway.

Something like this: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html
Then you just print from the Amiga to the windows machine using the Amiga postscript driver via the network.

I've done this using Linux instead of Windows and it works great..
(The laser printer I got doesn't support Postscript, but does have Linux drivers..  Considering getting a Raspberry Pi instead of using my Linux box, just so I don't have to power it up when I need to print, but I don't print that often..  Would be a good excuse to get a Pi tho.. ;-)

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« Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 04:10:47 AM by desiv »
Amiga 1200 w/ ACA1230/28 - 4G CF, MAS Player, ext floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 500 w/ 2M CHIP and 8M FAST RAM, DCTV, AEHD floppy, and 1084S.
Amiga 1000 w/ 4M FAST RAM, DUAL CF hard drives, external floppy.