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- Panasonic 9-pin Printer Driver
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- Who?
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- ⌐ 1991 Charles Rentmeesters
- Much thanks to Symantec for providing such a wonderful C compiler
- and environment for the Macintosh. And thanks of course to Apple
- Computer for producing such a good computer.
-
- What?
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- "Chuck's Printer Driver" is a printer driver -- chooser device for
- using Panasonic 9-pin printers (and compatables) with your Macintosh
- computer. It has been tested on a Macintosh SE (systems 4.1 through
- 7.0, English and Kanji versions), with a Panasonic KX-P1080i
- printer. It prints in Text (draft or NLQ) mode and Graphics (Low,
- Medium, and High) modes. It is FreeWare, I do not expect any money,
- but it would be nice to hear what you think of it, and what I should
- add. Included also is a beta test version of a 24-pin (kx-p1124)
- printer driver, it should also work with most epson compatible 24-pin
- printers. Note: There are still bugs in the text printing option,
- but the graphics modes should work fine.
-
- How?
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- You can use the printer driver by dropping it into your system
- folder, and selecting it from the chooser desk accessory. You should
- also take time to choose the set-up option in chooser so that the
- printer driver knows how to access your printer. You need to have
- some sort of serial to parallel converter if you are trying to hook-
- up a printer that only has a parallel port -- see your printer
- manual. The Grappler 9-pin interface can be turned into a simple
- serial to parallel converter by setting all of its dip-switches to
- the ON position.
-
- Where?
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- I can mostlikely be reached by internet e-mail to
- roach@khan.cs.wisc.edu, I read this mail approximately once a day,
- and will respond via internet e-mail usually within a day. I can
- also be reached by US mail:
- Charles Rentmeesters
- 410 North Carroll St
- Madison, WI 53703
-
- Why?
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- After receiving the 9-pin Grappler interface, and being disappointed
- in the way that it handled things, I decided to write my own printer
- driver in software. A software version would have more options and
- control over the original printer, where the Grappler only used the
- Imagewriter driver and did conversion in hardware. I thought this
- was a tremendous kludge.
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- When?
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- Version 0.2.0 is available now. New versions will be released when
- I receive enough feedback to release a new version.
-
- Disclaimer
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- The Printer Driver is freeware, copy it and give it to all your
- friends. This program can not and should not be sold for any price,
- it is free. I do not take any responsibility for the use of my
- software, use at your own risk, it may have bugs.
-
- Technical
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- The program uses the following printer control codes
- (9-pin version):
- For draft and NLQ modes:
- ESC x 1 Set NLQ mode
- ESC x 0 Set draft mode
- ESC - 1 Underline On
- ESC - 0 Underline Off
- ESC E Bold printing on
- ESC F Bold printing off
- ESC 4 Italics on
- ESC 5 Italics off
- ESC 2 Set scrolling to 1/6 of an inch
- ESC A <x> Set scrolling to x/72 inches
- For graphics mode:
- ESC K Enter graphics mode, 60dpi
- ESC * 5 Enter graphics mode, 72dpi
- ESC * 4 Enter graphics mode, 80dpi
- ESC * 6 Enter graphics mode, 90dpi
- ESC L Enter graphics mode, 120dpi
- ESC Z Enter graphics mode, 240dpi
- ESC A <x> Set scrolling to x/72 inches
- ESC 2 Set scrolling to 1/6 of an inch
- ESC 3 <x> Set scrolling to x/216 inches
-
- Other good referances
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- 'Print-Drivers.txt' by David Oster
- ( can be gotten by ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
-
- DTS (Apple Developer Technical Support) document
- 'Learning to Drive' and 'Sample Writer' source code,
- availiable on Developer's Essentials CD's (and also
- possibly ftp.apple.com, but I haven't checked)
-
- Also the HP Deskjet sources in C. (I forget where I
- got a hold of my copy. -- it's all public domain)
-
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