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Subject: Re: homebrew laser plotter

From: "Andrew" <andrewm1973@...>
Date: 2006-06-26

>>>>> Roel CNC wrote:
>>>>> <snip - "laser plotter anyone">

>>>> andrewm wrote:
>>>> <snip - "not a bad idea">

>>> lots of other people wrote:
>>> <snip - "how about doing it this way">

>> Roel wrote again:
>> <snip - "why the hell not">

> andrewm wrote again:
> <snip - other thoughts>
> The only other though I had from the PC side
> was to maybe write a GDI driver. That might be
> a bit out of my league though.

Have now investigated writing a printer driver
for windows.

There is a thing called unidrv that is quite easy
to do. You don't even realy need to do any
programming at all for simple cases.

I am going to write/make one of these and make my
laser plotter pretend to be a printer.

It makes it a bit windows bound - but I guess
thats the world we live in.

Only problems left now are the carraige and the
laser.