[riscos-printing] Re: GutenPrint and Canon printers

  • From: Alan Griffin <ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: riscos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:11:41 +0000 (GMT)

On 04 Mar, Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I reverted to RISC OS 4.02 on another machine, Printers 1.64a,
> GPDriver 2.04 and S800 from PrintersG. This does print out on my
> machine.

> Next thing to check is the following:

> Go in to printers and alter the destination to file and drag the
> "Printout" icon to your hard disc and then print a line of text.

> Load the "PrintOut" file in to a text editor and you should see
> something like this at the start:

Done. This is the start of the printout file:
[1b]9b[01][00][01][1b](q[01][00][01][1b](m[0c][00][02]ÿÿ[00][00]

> [K BJLSTART
> ControlMode=Common
> AckTime=Short
> BJLEND
> [K

> If you don't then for some reason you have still perhaps got the
> Gutenprint 2.02 loaded or being seen and not 2.04.

> One other thing make sure that in the filer options you have got
> "Force" and "Newer" set by clicking menu in a directory and going down
> to Options. Reinsatll 2.04 over your GP2Driver or better still delete
> it and put it back in again if you are unsure.

That's exactly what I did when I put Gutenprint 2.04 in originally!

Alan Griffin



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