Re: USB printing ??? & DOS2USB pgm

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Mon, 02 Apr
2007 00:00:09 -0400

> Try renaming SETTINGS.DFL to SETTINGS.SAV (or whatever) and
> importing the PRN file from Xy3 into your Xy4 folder, and
> temporarily renaming that file SETTINGS.DFL.

It won't work. Xy3 printer files don't work in Xy4. Renaming the
file to "SETTINGS.DFL" won't fool Editor.

Using a BJ130 printer driver to run a different printer (MP460) is a
kludge. That it worked in Xy3 was sheer luck, but it's hardly
surprising that the luck didn't hold up in Xy4. After all,
BJ130.PRN is not an MP460 printer file.

The lack of XyWrite printer files for newer printers is a problem,
but one that can be surmounted. The Jumbo U2's TYP routine
overcomes it nicely by linking Xy4 to Ghostscript, a freely-
available Postscript interpreter. There is some setup required (and
of course you need to load U2), but it works beautifully. With U2
installed, command HELP TYP for instructions.

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Carl Distefano
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