Re: Stylewriter drivers

[jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)]

Paolo Micossi (micossi@vtsa04.ts.infn.it) wrote:


: 	Hello everybody.

: Some time ago there was talk of alternate drivers being developed for
: the Stylewriter printer. Both A2 Central and II Alive printed rumors 
: about an improved GS/OS Stylewriter driver and an INIT that would allow
: ProDOS 8 applications to print on the Stylewriter. The programmers of
: the two drivers, so the story went, could not release their efforts to
: the public since they didn't obtain the information on the Stylewriter
: protocols through an official Apple channel (expensive licensing and
: strict non-disclosure agreement); therefore, they weren't legally     
: entitled to know anything about writing Stylewriter drivers.
: Did anybody out there actually see those drivers (or possibly write
: them)? If they did in fact exist, did they work well or were they
: in an unfinished state? Does Apple still regard Stylewriter I
: programming information as sensitive and proprietary, or has their
: policy on this subject relaxed?

: Thank you and regards,				Paolo Micossi
: 					(paolo.micossi@trieste.infn.it)

If you have ever looked at Linux there is a program called Ghost Script. 
According to the Ghost Script code the Canon Bubble Jet 600 and 800 use 
the same drivers as the Stylewriter. It seems to me that it would be 
pretty easy for someone that knows what they are doing to write the 
drivers for the GS. I don't know about the legality part of it though.

I would really like to see a driver for the Canon Bubble Jet 600 as I 
have one and can't get it to print in color from my GS.

jamess