derek@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Jones) (12/18/90)
Hello windows users, I have a Citizen swift 24 colour printer, and have discovered that the paint program supplied with windows 3.0 doesn't print out in colour, even though I have the recommended driver for the Citizen Epson emulation with its colour option installed. Q1: Does anyone know of a paint program that will print out in this combination in colour? Q2: Does anyone know of a write type of program to do the same, (i.e. allow highlighting of words say in red)? Both will have to work under windows 3.0 to be of real use to me. Please reply to me by mail and I'll summarise if requested. Please use my preferred mail address rather than the return address of this posting since I don't look here too often. Thanks in advance. Derek G. Jones. System Manager AI Vision Research Unit University of Sheffield Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN UK Tel: (0742) 768555 X 6551 email: derek@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk # preferred, I always read this. or: pc1dgj@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk # I sometimes read this. -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. --
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (12/19/90)
> I have a Citizen swift 24 colour printer, and have discovered that >the paint program supplied with windows 3.0 doesn't print out in colour, >even though I have the recommended driver for the Citizen Epson emulation >with its colour option installed. In looking at the SDL (Supplemental Disk Library?) from Microsoft there are (on disk 4) a couple of interesting files called genlib.dll and dmcolor.dll. I asked Microsoft about these and they didn't have any documentation specific to these. Poking around oemsetup.inf on this disk inticates that they are used by the Brother 9 and 24 pin printer drivers and the Star 24 pin printer driver and partially (genlib) by the Star 9 pin driver. My guess is that there are two possibilities... The first is that these might be the first printer drivers that CAN print colour from WIndows apps like PaintBrush The second and unfortunately the more likely is that the genlib and dmcolor DLL's are seperated from the drivers because they are going to be common between all drivers so why reproduce them over and over.... What I would like is someone with the Color Brother printers or the Color 24 pin Star printers to test out these drivers and report back to the net letting others know whats up... I got sdldisk4.zip from anonymous ftp at cica.cica.indiana.edu in the /pub/pc/win3/sdl area. I might even sell my slug printer and get the Star 24 pin colour if it really does the ticket... tj
BP3@psuvm.psu.edu (Larry Belan) (12/20/90)
In article <1990Dec18.074729.14547@ibmpcug.co.uk>, derek@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Jones) says: >Hello windows users, > I have a Citizen swift 24 colour printer, and have discovered that >the paint program supplied with windows 3.0 doesn't print out in colour, >even though I have the recommended driver for the Citizen Epson emulation >with its colour option installed. > Q1: Does anyone know of a paint program that will print out in this > combination in colour? > Q2: Does anyone know of a write type of program to do the same, (i.e. > allow highlighting of words say in red)? > Both will have to work under windows 3.0 to be of real use to me. I had contacted Microsoft about the same problem using the IBM 5182 color graphics printer....the driver allowed me to select the color ribbon, but paintbrush would not print in color.... Microsoft stated that Paintbrush will produce color output ONLY on the HP PaintJet or a Color Postscript printer.....Bummer. I can however print text in color using Word for Windows. Larry Belan PennState - Fayette Campus Computer Center Manager