Re: "New" .PRN drivers for XY -- inkjet models

[Steve Hayes khanyaiis@xxxxxxxx]

On 13 Sep 00, at 20:45, jr_fox@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi All --
>
> Since we've been discussing printer driver revisions lately -- as in the
> case of the HP-2100 -- I thought I might as well post this message now.
>
> There are a number of inkjet printer makes / models in common use now that
> did not exist at the time XyQuest (and later TTG) were actively creating
> and revising drivers. The Lexmark line is a good example, and probably
> some of the Cannon printers. It seems to me that some of the more
> advanced users of XY who still use it -- perhaps members of this list --
> *must have* either revised some plausible driver template, or written
> their own printer file from scratch, to fill this gap. If I can avoid
> re-inventing something that already exists, so much the better.



> There is also an HP 840C inkjet that I need to support, and possibly a
> higher model in that line later on. Early experiments with the stock HP
> Deskjet 500 printer file were fairly encouraging. That printer file may
> need only moderate revision, and we'll be in business.

I asked about this a few weeks ago, and several people replied that the HP
Laserjet printer files work on the HP Deskjets.

I haven't tried it yet, but what I have done is fiddle with the Deskjet 500
printer file I found on the disks and modified it to suit my needs. I'm using
a Deskjet 610c.

I've seen people mention XyWrite 4.0 for DOS. I haven't seen that, and though
I have disks for XyWrite for Windows, one of them was bad so I wasn't able to
install it. I continue to use 3.57 for most of what I want, and I have
Signature 1.0.

One problem I have is that Lotus Wordpro, when exporting to XyWrite, puts in
codes that 3.57 doesn't recognise, so I find it easier to export to Ascii.
And for most of my uses I don't need the XyWrite conversion - just very
occasionally.

I use Wordpro to convert journal articles (usually in WordPerfect format) to
HTML. and then use XyWrite to tidy up the resulting files before putting them
on the web.



Keep well,

Steve Hayes
E-mail: shayes@xxxxxxxx
  Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm