OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[GCC Consulting]

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> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:14 AM
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> Subject: OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84
> 
> I'm wondering if this is an option.  I've got a site running 
> a standard SCO
> 5.0.7 Box and filePro 5.014 and using an Oki590 with a color 
> kit.  Very simply it prints some simple plain text forms 
> using different colors to highlight information. It looks 
> like the printer is fried. (the alert light is on and I 
> haven't been able to reset it) The Oki was configured with a 
> serial adapter and I was printing directly to it thru filePro and UNIX
> /dev/tty1a4
> 
> There is already an EpsonC84 jet ink printer there on the 
> local PC network and I was able to reroute printing to it but 
> w/o color.  I set up the printer for UNIX use using Facetwin 
> configured with an Epson driver. Does anyone have print codes 
> to switch colors? Is it even possible? Thanks in advance for 
> your assistance. 
> 
> I'd like to use the existing hardware if possible rather than 
> order a new oki and possibly another serial card.  I did pull 
> the serial card out and the printer alert light is still light. 
> 
> Dan Bauer
> dan at onlinemgt.com
Dan,

Besides John's suggesting, you could look into PrintWizard program from Bob
Rasmussen.

Below are a list of features of PrintWizard from a recent email from Bob.

This product would allow you to print to most printers.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
 

Print Wizard is a suite of programs to do a wide variety of printing tasks,
and pseudo-printing tasks (PDF generation, faxing), on a Windows PC. Several
mechanisms are included for printing data that originates on a remote system
such as a Unix or Linux machine. A VERY abbreviated set of features:

* Auto-fit printing of plaintext reports.
* Forms overlay printing.
* Device-independent programmed printing.
* Label formatting.
* PDF generation (and emailing).
* Faxing under full program control, with no user intervention.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0

Some highlights:

1. Printwiz.exe now has a Windows GUI interface, rather than being a
"console program". This helps on many ease-of-use issues.

2. A new graphical front end, PWUI.EXE, allows you to easily initiate print
jobs, set options, launch services (see below), etc.

3. Various sets of printing options can be created, edited, and saved as
"print profiles". When you tell Print Wizard to print something, you can
tell it to use a particular print profile (instead of manually specifying
all those options).

4. A new "Smart Print" option allows you to use Print Wizard to send files
that Print Wizard can't print itself, such as .DOC files, to the appropriate
Windows program to be printed, much as Windows Explorer would do.

5. Certain background printing tasks can be performed as "Windows Services"
(on Windows NT and later). Windows Services continue to run even if no user
is logged in to that Windows machine. The PWUI program starts, stops, and
otherwise manages Windows Services. Windows Services include "despool",
"listen", and "LPD".

6. Alternatively, these background printing tasks can be performed as "Print
Wizard Services", which are run by a particular logged-in user. When run
this way, it is possible to have user interaction, such as working with
Print Preview.

7. A system of "Service Rules" provides a level of control over which users
are allowed to print, what host systems can send jobs to Print Wizard for
printing, maximum file sizes, etc.

8. Print Wizard now has access to several email protocols, so it can email
various files (typically generated PDF files) using CDO, MAPI, Outlook, or
SMTP.

9. The "Print Preview" window now allows you to resize it and zoom it. You
can mark up (that is, write on) the preview image with a mouse or,
especially, the stylus of a Tablet PC. A new popup menu allows you to
control the pen color, etc. Markup is printed on the first page of printout.

10. Print Wizard has expanded support for printing labels, such as for
addresses or library books. It now understands the vertical dimension as
well, through the ROWOFFSET and ROWGUTTER variables. Labels can be printed
in row order or column order. In the Print Preview window, you can point and
click to specify the starting label, allowing you to reuse partial sheets of
labels.

11. There have been continued improvements in the TRANSLATEPCL feature, in
which Print Wizard is able to read and understand PCL printer codes, and
emulate them in printing to various printers as well as generating faxes and
PDFs. This includes support for PCL color commands, embedded TrueType fonts,
and more HPGL commands.

12. We have enhanced support for the "FAX32" engine that is built in to
later versions of Windows. Notably, you can now send a single fax that
contains multiple attachments, including such formats as .DOC, and Print
Wizard will cause them to be rendered and combined into one fax.



Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
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