alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (07/27/88)
I have a highly non-standard serial printer (PrinterProducts model 720 point-
of-sale) which I must connect to a MacPlus (actually, five printers and five
Pluses...)
I would like a bare-bones serial driver which will just let me pass through
any ascii character to the printer. Eventually I will need to read information
back from the printer but I can worry about that later. The question is, does
anyone sell such a driver? Is there one in the Publlic Domain, or is there a
shareware one?
If not, I will write it myself. Writing a standard Printer Driverfor the Mac
is suppoesed to be a horrendous task, but this shouldn't be so tough, as it
need only accept draft-mode stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how
to begin? How about source code (I speak Pascal, C, Assembly, others).
Thanks in advance
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Best path: uunet!dasys1!alexisMark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com (07/28/88)
Have you tried making a cable and then printing in draft (fastest) mode? If so what happens? After that you need to ask someone with driver experience... Mark
kwan@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Andrew Kwan) (07/28/88)
In article <5760@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes: >I would like a bare-bones serial driver which will just let me pass through >any ascii character to the printer. Eventually I will need to read information >back from the printer but I can worry about that later. The question is, does >anyone sell such a driver? Is there one in the Publlic Domain, or is there a >shareware one? Earle Horton presented one in MacTutor magazine, December 1987 (?) issue. MacTutor sells the sources for a minimal cost on disk (the source code is in the magazine, too). Andrew Kwan