Re: Printer help (again)

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Another thought:

Can you convert the xy3+ files to Word, and print the
chapters from Windows? This works for me with xy4, but I
don't use a lot of formatting.

Judith Davidsen



Judith Davidsen wrote:
>
> I haven't been looking at ads for printers for a while, but
> about 6 months ago Hewlett Packard was selling simple
> Dos-compatibles in the $100 range. If you can find one of
> these--and it's what you want--at Staples, you can get free
> overnight delivery.
>
> Hope this helps
> Judith Davidsen
>
> 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