walton%Deimos@cit-hamlet.arpa (01/15/86)
Editorial comment: There are too <expletive deleted> many printers in
this world.
Plea for help: I have an off-brand printer called a Dataproducts model
SPG-8010-2/4. In its graphics mode, it understands a superset of the
commands of a real IBM Graphics Printer, with two differences. The base
vertical graphics spacing is 1/144" rather than 1/216", and the pins on
the print head are a little closer together, giving 82.5 instead of 72
dots per inch vertically. I would like to use this beast as a graphics
printer with (among others) MicroSoft Word and the HALO graphics package.
Does anyone out there have a printer like this?
Final comment: Since there are so many different types of printers in the
world, it would be very nice if companies like MicroSoft and Media
Cybernetics made the format for the printer drivers for their software
public, so that those who wanted to "roll their own" could do so.
Steve Walton
Caltech Solar Astronomy
walton%deimos@hamlet.caltech.edu
swalton@caltech.bitnet
...!ucbvax!cithep!hamlet#walton@deimosklotz@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Klotzbach) (01/21/86)
> > Final comment: Since there are so many different types of printers in the > world, it would be very nice if companies like MicroSoft and Media > Cybernetics made the format for the printer drivers for their software > public, so that those who wanted to "roll their own" could do so. > > Steve Walton > Caltech Solar Astronomy > walton%deimos@hamlet.caltech.edu > swalton@caltech.bitnet > ...!ucbvax!cithep!hamlet#walton@deimos *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Or better yet for those people who purchased Word 1.xx, it would be nice if Microsoft would make convprd available at a reasonable cost. I have Version 2.0 at work and Version 1.1 at home and have used convprd to create a prd file for my OKI-92 ibm.