[Coco] Coco and Modern Printers

[David Hazelton]

Chris;

Which OS (image) on the Raspberry has Java?  I have one and have been 
playing with it (when I find time) for the past couple of weeks,   So I 
am interested in other PI users and what OS they are using for what.

~David Hazelton




On 9/15/2012 9:28 AM, Christopher Hawks wrote:
> 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!!)
>