OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[Daniel Bauer]

I've always liked their ANZIO terminal emulation, I guess its time to dig a
little deeper into the product line. Thanks

Dan


| -----Original Message-----
| From: GCC Consulting [mailto:gccconsulting at comcast.net]
| Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:54 AM
| To: 'Daniel Bauer'; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
| Subject: RE: OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84
| 
| 
| 
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From:
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| > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.c
| elestial.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Bauer
| > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:14 AM
| > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
| > 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
|  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
|           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
|             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
|             web: http://www.anzio.com
| 
| 
| 
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