[Coco] DriveWire printing options

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 25 December 2009, Bob Devries wrote:
>Hi Aaron, you said:
>> I think I've decided to limit the DriveWire functionality to dumping the
>> bytes into a file.  This keeps DW clean and smaller.
>
>I totally agree with that. In Linux at least, a script could handle the
>conversion, as Gene has already pointed out. Windows may be a little more
>complex however, but I'm sure some of our smart programmers will step into
>the gap.
>
>Regards, Bob Devries
>Goulburn, NSW, Australia

While I can generally agree with that, I would suspect that even the winderz 
drivers for an FX80 compatible printer (and that list is indeed a long one) 
are suffering from a lack of tlc, not from bit-rot although its possible, but 
from changes in the windows API that might cripple them unless running a W95 
or previous install.  There is something to be said for reasonably up to date 
hardware.  That Brother laser, HL-2140, at just over a $120 + expendables, 
certainly seems like a well built, cheap to run, B&W printer to me.  It takes 
far longer to list a 30 page file to /p at 9600 baud, than it does for the 
Brother to spit it out once the data starts coming back.  We paid about $150 
a copy way back then for those POS (Gorilla's?) they sold us as DMP-105/6's.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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