Re: Color laser printers and the IIgs...some Musings

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Mar 31, 1:29 am, "Christopher G. Mason" <c...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Heck, lets even throw
> in RAW Port 9100 TCP/IP printing via Marinetti while we are dreaming
> (actually this could likely be written as a virtual "port" driver and
> support all existing printer drivers like Harmonie).

Even this part would be very nice. I posted about it not that long
ago, I think, but I'd have to buy three manuals (TBRs 1, 2, and 3)
just to even START doing it, and I'm not that good at programming
anyway.

You'd need a CDEV to control the IP address that it goes to, and the
driver would basically just run as a port driver, open a connection
with Marinetti, and dump the raw data stream. No actual processing, so
that much would be simple...

(Myself, I have a monochrome PCL (and it can emulate ESC/P and I
believe an IBM ProPrinter, which is nice, but with Harmonie or
Independence, not so necessary) laser, so this means color printing is
of limited utility for me (I do have a few color inkjets and even a
dot matrix with ESC/P emulation, too, though.))

Which reminds me... it's an HP. If you have a copy of Harmonie, have
you tried using the Color DeskJet driver?  HP says that it supports
PCL6 and PCL5c, so it should be backwards compatible with a PCL3+c
driver (like that used for the Color DeskJet.)