Re: easy way to print from xywrite

["Raphael Tennenbaum" raphael@xxxxxxxx]

one immediate solution comes to mind: a print server with both USB and parallel
interfaces. it shouldn't be hard to find these, I think they're usually <$100, though
naturally you'd have to sort out whether the input is from USB (what you want) or
LPT (not what you want, but these days with parallel ports almost extinct, I doubt
they make too many of these). maybe this $44 baby is what you want

http://www.cesell.com/product.php?productid=37016

in my experience, print servers are very easy to set up, in OS/2 and Linux anyway,
MS seems to have its own completely idiotic version of network addressing.

I often found GS a nuisance to configure in OS/2 as well, which usually has kept me
several versions behind. however, after being unable to find OS/2 drivers for the
last Canon fax/copier/printer I bought, I managed to get the base version of the
most recent GS installed. then, instead of setting up the daemon, which was
always the troublesome part, I got Frank Wochatz's ePDF running -- it's a very
simple and elegant gui that will take the PS file from your postscript printer and
make a PDF out of it, which copies to the XP or Linux box for printing.

-rafe


On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:35 -0800 (PST), J R FOX wrote:

>--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Patricia M. Godfrey  wrote:
>
>> 1. You can print directly to a USB printer (no adapter
>> needed) IF it is HP PCL or PostScript (or a really ancient
>> Epson ESC/P, but I doubt there are any of them still
>> working), using the net use command to map the USB port to a
>> virtual parallel port.
>
>Maybe I was less than clear in what I wrote. What I asked is actually a bit more
complicated. I do indeed have two *working* ESC/P Epson printers -- different
models -- neither of which is USB. My current computer has a bad Par. Port; the
one that _may_ replace it has no Par. Port at all. But I *do* have a Parallel - to -
USB adapter. Its USB connector would be for the *computer* end of it. Does
_that_ add up to any workable combination ?
>
>> 2. If the printer isn't HP PCL or Postscript, you can
>> still print to it over USB, using Postghst.prn, TYP,
>> Ghostscript, and GSView; you can also generate PDFs using
>> the same programs and Xy2PDF in U2. My laptop has no
>> parallel port, my desktop's printer is USB, both are
>> Epsons (NOT ESC/P), and I print from both all the time.
>
>I'm willing to give this a try, although I've had problems with GhostScript printing
under OS/2. Sometimes, some versions of GS worked, but often not. (This was
before the MB replacement, when my Par. Port still worked. The problem with the
port has not proved amenable to any of the troubleshooting I threw at it.) I've
never tried to use GS under Windows.
>
>
> Jordan
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