Re: Needed: printer codes for a wide variety of printers

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From: Richard Bumby
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:56

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xsession@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (X session) writes:

>There is this one program that supports a multi- mega- tude of printers
>and that is Word Perfect.
>It comes with zillions of printer defs and the program ptr.exe
 . . .

Why should this be?  This sounds like there are facilities to support
current printers.  But there are some obsolete printers that still
work, and there are new printers coming out all the time that do more
than just emulate some existing standard.  For example, the version of
quattro that I bought a couple of years ago allows me to select the
graphics printer that I will be using by name -- giving me no clue
whether I can build files to be printed on my Prism 80, and little
guidance in getting the best results on by Canon BJ-10e.  Wouldn't it
be better if the interface used a printcap file that could be modified
by the user.  Several samples for the currently popular printers could
be supplied.
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From: bumby@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby)
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Subject: Re: Needed: printer codes for a wide variety of printers
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Date: 27 Jun 91 18:56:13 GMT
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