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Article #2841universal printer drive
From: A.E. Eckberg
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
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I am trying to obtain fully functional color printing capability with an old Apple Imagewriter II printer connected to a modern Windows 95 PC. By searching extensively, I have a driver which, when installed, does an excellent job printing in black and white. This driver makes use of the "universal printer driver" unidrv.dll, and also another library program, dmcolor.dll. The public-domain Imagewriter driver came with earlier (vintage Windows 3.1) versions of unidrv.dll and dmcolor.dll, but I have been running with the Windows 95 versions (the Windows 95 version of unidrv.dll gives more functionality in setting options, etc.). When I try to print in color, the result is poor. The combination of driver + printer will not print all colors. It seems that the driver is telling the printer to print all blue content as yellow or orange. I have technical documentation for the Imagewriter II, and know all the control and escape sequences that control its printing, including the different colors. My question is the following. It would seem that a "universal printer driver" would allow one to somehow customize a printer driver, using the type of printer technical detail I have. Is there a way to do this? I'm thinking of something like constructing a table of printer control codes and utilizing some sort of compilation procedure to produce a customized driver from that. Is this possible? Are there any existing techniques for doing this? Please send any leads to "a.e.eckberg@worldnet.att.net". Thanks!!!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104d8a,a849e101b900fe9e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104d8a,public X-Google-Thread: 10200c,a849e101b900fe9e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10200c,public X-Google-Thread: 10e902,a849e101b900fe9e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10e902,public From: "A.E. Eckberg" <a.e.eckberg@worldnet.att.net> Subject: universal printer drive Date: 1997/10/24 Message-ID: <62ptre$3ob@mtinsc05.worldnet.att.net> X-Deja-AN: 284679580 Distribution: inet Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Reply-To: a.e.eckberg@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,umich.caen.support.printer,fj.comp.dev.printer