rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez) (10/09/90)
The printer drivers supplied with win3 are, for the most, great and do a good job at giving the user the best possible output the hardware can produce. But, with foreign charaters there is one problem. Either they become garbled up in the printer (or within the driver for all I know) or they are just replaced by a "." At work we use Star printers (LC10 and LC24-10). They function well with all software packages (including windows) but refuse to print the norwegian "o+/" (o with a slash) and replaces it with the infamous "." To make a long story short, can anybody help me ? I've tried epson and other drivers without success. ************************************************************************ **** * RODRIGO LOPEZ SERRANO Biotechnology Centre of Oslo * * Tel: xx-02-958766 Gaustadalleen 21 * * Fax: xx-02-694130 P.B. 1125 Blindern * * rodrigo.lopez@use.uio.no 0316 Oslo 3 Norway * * rodrigo.lopez%use.uio.uninett@nac.no * * rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no * ************************************************************************ ****
d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson) (10/13/90)
In article <1990Oct9.120632.1224@ulrik.uio.no>, rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez) writes: > The printer drivers supplied with win3 are, for the most, great and do a > good job at giving the > user the best possible output the hardware can produce. But, with > foreign charaters there is > one problem. Either they become garbled up in the printer (or within the > driver for all I know) or > they are just replaced by a "." > > At work we use Star printers (LC10 and LC24-10). They function well with > all software packages > (including windows) but refuse to print the norwegian "o+/" (o with a > slash) and replaces it with > the infamous "." > > To make a long story short, can anybody help me ? > I've tried epson and other drivers without success. > Yea, I've had similar problems (though with Swedish characters). There is one solution, and that is to use the TTY.DRV printer driver. It's not a nice way, and I don't recommend it if you don't like hexcodes and leafing through printer manuals. The thing is that in Windows 3 you can reprogram the TTY driver so that it translates ANSI (the Windows character set) characters to control code/character combinatation to send to the printer. Applying some techical skill, it is in principle possible to program it to function with all printers that are not using a page description language. (Mr) Ola Sigurdson Internet: d89os@efd.lth.se