Author Topic: need help with printer (Read 1743 times)

rednova · « **on:** March 30, 2009, 10:32:33 PM »

Dear Amigans:

I have an amiga 1200 with also 'ProWrite' and
'professional page'. No amiga printer. My pc has a fully working printer (i think is laser maybe ?) which is a
hewlet packard deskjet 712c. Is it possible to make this printer work with my amiga? Can you help me pls ?

rednova

Bazzaq · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2009, 10:47:02 PM »

712 is an inkjet printer, i assume its a parallel connection? if so i dont see why you cant use it on amiga,
depends on driver, cant see one on aminet,

Turboprint may support it?
Turboprint

stefcep2 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2009, 10:51:16 PM »

Sometimes even if there is no driver that model, a driver a similar model may work just as well. Turboprint works really well with a lot of parallel port printers.

davideo · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2009, 11:20:31 PM »

If your printer will accept postscript you can set that from within workbench preferences and output directly to the printer.

Dave G 8-)

rednova · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2009, 11:24:12 PM »

hi:

thanks for the replies. The printer does have a parallel port connection. I will try using it on my amiga 1200. Thanks!!!

rednova

save2600 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:05:38 AM »

Good thing you are trying to print from an A1200 and not an A1000 :-)

rednova · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:16:07 AM »

@save2600

hehe I guess amigas 1000 is not good for this !!!

rednova

Damion · « **Reply #7 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:23:32 AM »

I tried getting a 712c working years ago on an A1200, and wasn't able. I didn't spend forever troubleshooting, but IIRC, the 712c required something "special" that the amiga drivers didn't support. Most other printers I tried worked fine.

rednova · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:26:33 AM »

@-D-

thanks for the tip. I am just gonna get an old printer and see if I can make it work with my a1200.

rednova

save2600 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:32:44 AM »

@ Darrin:

Did you try it with TurboPrint??

save2600 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2009, 01:36:39 AM »

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rednova wrote:
@-D-

thanks for the tip. I am just gonna get an old printer and see if I can make it work with my a1200.

rednova

Old printers w/ parallel ports surely WILL work. Especially for plain text and not too fancy of formatting. If you want greater compatibility and flexibility, see the recurring theme from my other posts. All "solutions" Legacy wise are obsolete, but you can tweak the settings in TurboPrint to produce some very manageable results.

They're the best I've found/used yet. Anyone know of a better software solution?

sandpiper · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2009, 02:03:06 AM »

RedNova & -D-

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the 712c required something "special" that the amiga drivers didn't support.

The 712c is a Windows Host based printer (PPA I think they are called). They don't use PCL or Postscript per se. I had a 722c once which is similar and got it working using pnm2ppa which uses Ghostscript, but I did it over a network from the Amiga through a Windows host. Not sure if pnm2ppa is available with the Amiga Ghostscript package.

Tension · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2009, 03:53:17 AM »

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save2600 wrote:
Good thing you are trying to print from an A1200 and not an A1000 :-)

I wonder how many people have plugged their printer into the serial port by mistake... I`m sure everyone`s done it at some stage heh

Damion · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2009, 06:04:24 AM »

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Did you try it with TurboPrint??

No, just came to the conclusion it wouldn't work without a bunch of hassle. I'm no printer guru though.

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The 712c is a Windows Host based printer (PPA I think they are called). They don't use PCL or Postscript per se. I had a 722c once which is similar and got it working using pnm2ppa which uses Ghostscript, but I did it over a network from the Amiga through a Windows host. Not sure if pnm2ppa is available with the Amiga Ghostscript package.

Thanks for explaining that. I recall pulling my hair out a little, as 3.9 does have a 712c driver, which of course does nothing. (Thought I had a bum port until I tried other printers.) Pretty cool you were able to figure out a way to get it working.