Re: Printer help (again)

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie:

HP's Laser Jets 2 through 4 all work famously with Xywrite -- if black and
white is all you want. And the printer driver is in the package.

Ed


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Leslie Savan wrote:

>
>    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
>