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Re: Printer Interface

#6754
From: Greg Hollingsworth
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1986 19:30
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>I have a Brother Executron 70 typewriter, with a IF-50 interface to a computer.
>I am using MS-Word, V2.0 as the word processing program.  The problem:  what
>printer driver file should I be using.  Right now, when I try to get Spanish
>characters on the printer, I get $.  All of the English characters print out
>normal, just the Spanish ones are not working.  Does anyone out there have
>any solutions?

The printer description files supplied with Microsoft Word are for the 
more commonly used PC printers.  You might try the PRD file for Brother 
printers, but I doubt that any of the printer description files will
work just right, especially if you are trying to print Spanish characters.

Microsoft provides documentation and utilities to write your own printer
description file.  The documentation is in a DOC file on the utilities
diskette.  Writing a printer description file is a fairly simple matter 
if you have a good printer manual that contains all the necessary control 
sequences.  
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Greg Hollingsworth		...!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!gregh
U of Md. CSC Systems staff	gregh@trantor.umd.edu
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Subject: Re: Printer Interface
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Summary: Microsoft Word printer interface for Brother Executron 70.