Re: Answer Found Re: How get Xy to use network printer

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

J R FOX wrote:
> regularly referring to things that by now only draws
> blank stares from most of the rest of the world.
Actually, I was just speaking to someone young enough to be my grandson,
and he remembered DOS. Still sometimes works at the command line.
> > From Newegg.com: "Print Languages, std. 	 HP
> > PCL6, HP PCL5e, HP
> > postscript level 3 emulation"; no DOS here;
Well, that is just typical mindless ignorance. If it understands PCL5
and you have a DOS app with a PCL5 driver, you SHOULD be able to print,
barring weird configuration issues like Paul's. I was, recall, able to
do it from Vista, to an HP USB printer, though only with copy
filename.ext from the DOS prompt. Xy had a printer error, which may
simply have sprung from the fact that the Vista laptop wasn't connected
to the network. Even if it wasn't, it should be fairly simple to write
an XPL routine to printf, then shell to DOS and copy the file to the
mapped lpt port--à la TYP.
> I hope they did not join the ranks of
> stripped down WIN-printers.
I rather think the fad for WinPrinters has faded. Most nowadays seem to
have some smarts (after all, the Linici are going to cry foul very
loudly if one can ONLY use the thing with Redmond Rubbish, as are the
Mac users--together a market segment not to be sneezed at). The problem
is that they keep changing the internal languages and coding: Epson
dropped ESC/P for something called ESC/P Raster, whose inner workings
even Epson tech support doesn't know anything about. And I have not been
able to get several not very new HP deskjets to print smart quotes and
em dashes. If I need them, I have to use TYP. Thanks to Robert that we
have it.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscameg@xxxxxxxx