traiger@oxy.edu (Saul Traiger) (10/27/90)
In article <41345@cci632.UUCP> lab@cci632.UUCP (Len Bauer) writes: > > Windows 3.0 was installed for me, by Gateway, when I bought their machine. >I am now trying to add my Panasonic printer to Windows, but when I view the >list of available printer drivers, I only have the 'Generic/ Text only' driver. > > In my documentation and also in a third party book, I am led to believe that >more drivers than the Generic one, are supplied by Windows. Is this true, or >am I hallucinating? You are not hallucinating. > > Also, is there a particular file that I can reinstall from the distribution >disks to get all of the available drivers back? The file which has the driver information is setup.inf. Sounds like somehow you wound up with an abbreviated version of this. This happened to me when I installed special video drivers after installing Windows. I think, (but don't quote me on this) that the setup.inf file should be around 49K in length. > > Thanks for any and all help. Good luck. Saul Traiger Cognitive Science Program Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041 traiger@oxy.edu
user@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu (03/14/91)
I would like to know if anyone has either a source or actual printer drivers for Panasonic Printers: KXP-1091 and KXP-1124 for windows. I use the printer drivers for epson that my printer emulates, however, the printer quality is fairly low. I had a similar problem when I was using Word 4.0 until I got an actual driver which utilized my printer's capabilities. Now that I have switched to Windows and Word 4 Win., I would like to get new drivers specifically for the panasonic. I have posted a request on CompuServe to no avail. If anyone has information, I would appreciate a reply via NetNews or to MEDLIN@CEMVAX.MSU.EDU. Thanks a lot. Stephen Medlin Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48823
Hubert Lai <LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (03/16/91)
In article <009458CE.A6FD4320@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu>, user@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu says: > Use the NEC P6 driver instead of the 24-pin Epson driver. That way you can get 360x360 dpi resolution. The only downside is that the hardware fonts don't match up as well as with the Epson driver. However if you don't use the fonts built into the printer anyways, this isn't a problem. The printer output with the NEC driver is *GREAT* and if you use an on-the-fly font scaling package like Adobe Type Manager, you have no real need for hardware font support at all. Strongly recommended... >I would like to know if anyone has either a source or actual printer drivers >for Panasonic Printers: KXP-1091 and KXP-1124 for windows. I use the >printer drivers for epson that my printer emulates, however, the printer >quality is fairly low. <=- Hubert
mleiber@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM (#Michael Leiber) (04/02/91)
Lately there has been uploaded a revised printer driver for Epson compatible 24 pin printers to cica.cica.indiana.edu. It's called 24PIN.ZIP and resides in ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/drivers/printer. It contains two replacement drivers for the epson24.drv supplied with windows, and a fairly good TMS RMN font. I also got a message from somebody stating that he's found a modified KX-P1124 printer driver called 1124WIN.ZIP with improved handling of the Roman font. I haven't tried it yet, but will do so if I can get access to it. Give the first one mentioned a try, it's worth, Regards michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ email: mleiber@hpwadlk.wad.hp.com hpdesk: Michael Leiber / HPB400 / R1 phone: Germany 7243 602527 address: Michael Leiber, Hewlett Packard, Waldbronn Analytic Division, Hewlett Packard Str. 1, 7517 Waldbronn, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) (05/28/91)
I'm looking for source code for a sample printer driver for windows.
Any exist out there? How about the format of the printer driver files (ie.
EPSON9.DRV) documented anywhere?
(for that matter, the format of any of the windows specific files documented
anywhere?)
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In article <5004@orbit.cts.com> dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) writes: > > I'm looking for source code for a sample printer driver for windows. >Any exist out there? How about the format of the printer driver files (ie. >EPSON9.DRV) documented anywhere? >(for that matter, the format of any of the windows specific files documented >anywhere?) > I would like to get a sample printer driver also, as would others. However, you'll need to purchase the DDK from Microsoft, which includes examples of printer drivers, including source code. By the way, the source code would include 'C' and Assembler. I hear it's not a pretty picture. Let me know what you find. Regards |(8> --- Robert