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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: how to make "autoswitch" print driver for NEC model 95 ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.161331.4790@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 16:13:31 GMT
- References: <APOULSEN.93Jan22225003@marinara.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <APOULSEN.93Jan22225003@marinara.mit.edu> apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
- >i've got an NEC silentwriter model 95, which does both postscript
- >level 2 and pcl 5 (laserjet 3). it comes with an autoswitching driver
- >for dos/windows, but nothing for os2. i called NEC and got the codes
- >that are required for mode switching, and have been playing around with
- >writing an "lpr" program that will autoswitch, but that only works for
- >files that i've already got on disk.
- >so my question is: is it possible to write a program that could be
- >attached say, to the laserjet 3 driver, which would intercept any job
- >sent to the laserjet 3, then send the codes to switch to laserjet 3
- >mode, wait about 15 seconds (for the printer to complete the mode
- >switch), then print the file(s), and finally switch back to postscript
- >mode? this would be very convenient, and i would imagine there are
- >others who could benefit from such a program....
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- It's already been done, actually. Do a string search with "NEC" on
- the file /pub/os2/00Index at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, and you'll find it.
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