Re: Are you there? --> printer drivers

["Beeson, Douglas" beesond@xxxxxxxx]

It depends on the printer. Xy III+ has older versions of drivers that often
perform adequately on new printers, as long as your needs run to the
text-oriented. In addition, more drivers are available for download from the
TTG BBS. (don't have the number on me, sorry. Call 410-576-2040 and choose
tech support to hear it). If your friend has a HP Deskjet, for example,
there is a Deskjet 500 driver for Xy3 that does the job, though you can
forget about TrueType and all that, since the software itself doesn't
support it. There are also PostScript drivers available if your friend has a
PS-capable laser printer.

Finally it's worth experimenting with the existing drivers on the Xy3
diskette. You can even modify them yourself if you know what you're doing
(not for the faint of heart, tho...). For that you would need the technical
manual from the printer listing all the supported codes as well as the
XyWrite explaining the structure of a print driver file.

Doug Beeson
beesond@xxxxxxxx
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From: nsivin
To: XYWRITE
Subject: Re: Are you there? --> printer drivers
Date: March 12, 1996 00:00


Doug:
>of WYSIWYG, TrueType fonts and the increasingly outdated 3.x printer
>drivers. I know I can't.

A friend of mine is facing that problem right now. She bought
a new printer but doesn't find a proper driver for it on the
old 3+ driver floppy. Being computer-ignorant, I can't really
advise anything other than to buy XY4 and "making the transition"
(shudder). But she loves the old XY and would prefer to keep using
it. If there is any magic solution out there, I'd be happy to pass
it on. TIA


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 -- Rene