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driver for epson GQ3500

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From: Paul Richards
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:15
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Has anyone written a driver for the above??

If not, then maybe I'll have a go but I need help!

It's a bitmapped based printer i.e. you download a bit map into its
memory and then tell it to print it, so I need a routine that returns an
array of bytes that contains a complete bit map of the whole rendered
page. Just like taking a screen dump of the ghostscript window. I've had
a brief look at the gdevmem routines but I can't really make sense of
what I need and don't need. What I want to do is send an initialisation
string to the printer which says, here comes a bit map and then just
send a complete dump of the page down. Is it too simple to expect to
just have one procedure call that returns a complete bitmap? Hopefully
not otherwise things will be more awkward. 

Is this the only laser printer that works in this way? 
-- 
  Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK.

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Subject: driver for epson GQ3500
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