[Coco] Coco and Modern Printers

[Christopher Hawks]

Aaron Wolfe said the following on 09/14/2012 10:12 PM:
>>
>> Frank:
>>
>>          The Raspberry Pi should run the Linux version of Drivewire 3 with no
>> problem. It has printer support. (Might be possible to run Drivewire 4,
>> depends on RPi's Java capabilities.)
>>
>>          A credit card sized Drivewire Server!!
>>
>>          That's one of the first things mine is going to do (if it ever gets
>> here!).
>>
>> --
>> Christopher R. Hawks
>
>
> The DW4 server runs very well on the Raspberry Pi.  Actually it runs
> fine on much, much more limited devices such as the Linksys NSLU2 (a
> device with a 133mhz arm cpu and 32mb ram, compared to the Pi's
> 700mhz/modern cpu and 256mb).   You can also run cups and/or whatever
> printer stuff you need to talk to whichever printer you'd like to use
> on the little guy, so its very well suited for tasks like this.
>
> DW4 emulates an epson FX80 (partially) to render dot matrix output as
> an image or will create plain text output.   You can specify arbitrary
> commands for the server to invoke after an output file is created (and
> pass them the name of that file).  This makes it easy to do things
> like Gene has set up.. in a nutshell you print on the coco like normal
> and it comes out of your modern printer like normal, all
> automagically.
>
> It would be difficult to build anything for $35 that could work nearly
> so nicely for printing alone, much less all the other things DW4 can
> do and all the other things the Pi can do.

	Thanks for the confirmation Aaron! I was hoping that the Pi would work for DW4.

	A $35 DW4 server _hidden_ _inside_ my CoCo!! (Cant' wait!!)

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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