Printer help (again)

[Leslie Savan savan@xxxxxxxx]

   A week or two ago, I wrote a request similar to Nicholas
Clifford's
(below), about how to get my printer (an Epson Stylus Color 580) to work
with Xywrite III+, now that TTG is gone and can no longer
provide downloadable printer drivers. J.R. Fox wrote back an extremely
helpful, detailed message (also below), but, alas, my computer guy was
still not able to get it to work.
   So I really have 3 questions now:
   1) Does anyone have specific instructions for for getting Xywrite
III+ (version 3.56) to print under Windows Millennium or Windows 2000?
(2000 seems to be where the difficulties began. I have access to both it
and Millennium.)
   2) Failing that, does anyone know how to contact George from the
Technology Group, the guy who seems to know everything about xywrite and
who told me how to download what I needed (but I'm an idiot and didn't
get around to trying it until just recently, after the website stopped
hosting Xywrite).
   and/or:
   3) Does anyone know of an old printer I can buy that works well
and will definitely work with XYwrite III+? If there's no other way to
do this, I could hook up my old desktop (with Win95) to an old printer,
use it just for Xywrite printing, and stick the whole thing in a closet.
(My own old printer that worked with xywrite is completely broken.)
    If I sound a little desperate, I am. I have chapters of a book
that I have to print out and send to my editor soon. Can anybody help?
    (I apologize if these are old questions. I tried downloading some
archives, but was unable to find anything there.)
    Thank you all...Leslie Savan


Nicholas Clifford wrote:
>
> I've just returned to this list after a long absence, and apologize if
> this is an old question about old news. But I only just discovered the
> vanishing of TTG and its list of downloadable printer drivers that I
> once depended on.
>
> Did those printer files go anywhere? Google is no help. I'm interested
> particularly in the Brother HL-1440, which I am considering. Apparently
> it will work with a HPLJ-2P driver for Xy4 (I wonder how well?) but what
> about Xy3+?
>
> Another question, which no doubt also has been covered. How about
> running Xy4 and Xy3+ under Windows XP? Does that work or not work?
>
> If this question has become completely boring to other members of the
> list, I'd appreciate an offline response.
>

J.R. Fox wrote:
> Can any body help me to hook up a new printer to my XywriteIII?

Assuming you have a valid driver file for your printer, this should just
be
a matter of adding a line to your Startup.Int that loads it. For
example:

BC Load F:\XY3\Mystery.Prn

with your correct Path info and printer file name. The highlighted "BC"
is
a function call, not just the actual letters. (I think the preferred
practice for XY4 may have become the use of a BX function call instead,
but
I never got caught up with certain details like that.) Startup.Int is
considered a program, so it is better for you to call it for editing
with
CAP, rather than CA. (Best to have it backed up first, as well.) There
are
various ways of entering function calls into the file, such as PFUNC,
but
the easiest for you may just be to copy another line's "BC" to a fresh
line,
as your Startup file should have plenty already.

>   But what George told me was this:
>   --go to TGRP.com, go to "support" or "download," go to xywrite III
> drivers and find 3LQ570.prn (and download from there).

>   Well, as you probably all know, TGRP no longer hosts xywrite at all,
> so I couldn't get any further than the TGRP website.

I never checked, and doubt it still exists, but they had an old dial-up
BBS
that stayed up for many years beyond the time anyone might have expected
it
would. It had many of those files also, particularly the older ones.

No matter. I subscribed to their Application Notes for several years,
which
provided various printer files etc. on diskette, and collected Xy-files
from
other sources. Anything that was on 5.25" disks here but never got
transferred to Zip or CD -- and there was a stack of such disks -- we
can
probably forget about, since I can't even take a Dir of it now. But I
can
search for your particular printer file, given some time. XY3 is mostly
off
my hard drive by now, but I did see at least 3LQ850 and 3LQ2550, which I
think worked with my Epson Stylus Color 800 that is now in storage.
Those I
could send you more quickly, though I don't know if either is
appropriate.
Let me know if you care to experiment.

Jordan