steve@dcdwest.UUCP (Steve Meloche) (04/04/88)
I have a BMC BX-80 printer which is very nice but has been a pain since my C-64 days. The problem is support and printer drivers. It is very similar to some
brand of Epson printer (setting programs to that printer driver usually worked),
but not exactly. In the C-64 world I gave up and just bought programs that
would work with it, e.g. Flexidraw (and Geos, sort of), and stayed away from
programs that didn't (like print shop).
On the Amiga, I suffered with horizontal white lines in the printout until
getting PrtDrvGen, which, after a *lot* of work, enabled me to construct a
working printer driver. The only problem with this is that the file is several
times larger than a regular driver (like the Epson one I modified it from). On
my crowded workbench disk this is undesirable. Is there a *real* printer driver
out there for the BMC printer? If there is, I would appreciate information on
how to get it.
Having just read the latest issue of Amiga Sentry, I am drooling in anticipation
of the 1.3 printer device, with its integer scaling, but I am worried. Will I
be able to use it with my printer? Or will my obscure printer be left in the
cold again? I don't have a compiler or assembler to make my own drivers, so
I've got my fingers crossed. Does anybody "in the know" have an encouraging
word for me in that reguard? Slower, blotchy (rescaled) output is better than
output with white lines through it. . . . .
TIA (thanks in advance), Steven Meloche - * It's hard to type with *
_____ _____ _____ * your fingers crossed!! *
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