Printing gripe

[pjhutch]

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)

[Castellen]

And just to state the obvious, Final Writer (or at least FW97) has similar print options to Wordworth.

I use it often to print large double sided documents in my postscript laser printer.
To avoid too much paper shuffling, you can also print the first (odd) sides in reverse order, put the whole lot in the manual feed tray, then print the even sides in normal order.
That's for us poor people who can't afford a real duplex 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.

[Hyperspeed]

Hrrmmm, ethernet printing on Amiga - wonder if that's possible. Turboprint can redirect output to various devices...

I bought a Stylus 3000 last year that prints carpet-sized pages and that has a network card in it. Might save a bit of time using ethernet instead of the slooOOow parallel port!

[pjhutch]

It is possible to print to ethernet over TCP/IP by using the Networking Printer Client from Aminet - NetParLpr.lha.

[wurzel]

stopthegop wrote:
T guess the other option is Pagestream (which I also have), but that requires a lot of fiddling and formatting to set up a large file to print double sided..  These are simple

You have the tool to do exactly what you want, right there! It's not difficult to set up to print odd then even pages. The option is in the print requester. You don't have to print duplex which admittedy, is fiddly.

[Hyperspeed]

by pjhutch:
It is possible to print to ethernet over TCP/IP by using the Networking Printer Client from Aminet - NetParLpr.lha.

Says it works with Turboprint... will give it a try tommorrow! Thanks!

:-)

[stopthegop]

Any verdict on this question of sending printer stuff to and from ethernet ports?  

[Hyperspeed]

by stopthegop:
Any verdict on this question of sending printer stuff to and from ethernet ports?

I'll try the tool on Aminet tommorrow when I can get a forklift to move the Stylus 3000.

;-)

I can't remember whether it had a BNC or an RJ45 connector now. I do have a spare RJ45 lead and a 3COM card for the A1200's PCMCIA port so I might be able to try something. The limiting factor will probably be the CPU though.

I have some cool pics I wanna print but they're 9 megapixel and I want them on A2 paper so this should be interesting.

[sir_inferno]

stopthegop wrote:
When I select "Print..." (with elipses) from a program's menu options and I get a popup with three choices such as "print" (no elipses), "settings...", and "cancel", what is it I'm changing when I select "settings..."?   Are any changes I make to these settings unique to the application I'm using or are they global, affecting the way all applications will print?  This is where I would expect to find the option to print either EVEN, ODD, or ALL.  My understanding is that these settings are options for the printer "driver", affecting the way all applications print (assuming the changes are saved and not "applied")?  Is this not right?  If this dialog where I change printing options is not part of the application and it isn't "the driver", what is it?  

bit of a workaround, but if you've got a "Pages:" box expecting you to type in 1, 2-5, 7 or watever...copy and paste a load of even number from a text file into that dialog box...

[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