Digital BW, The Print

Hi Michael,

Thank you, thank you.  I got your code and it does look pretty simple.

From what it looks like, it seems it still uses the windows print spooler.
Is that right?  Do you think it's worth putting this code into quadtoprinter
to avoid another pipe?  The rest of the code is straight C but I'm using
the Visual C++ compiler.

Am I right that you don't even need the sharename feature to use this?
How about if you actually do have a network and the printer is on the
ethernet or another machine?

For the "almost center" feature:  are you using a 1270 or other desktop 
that doesn't print well for the last .55 inches?   The unequal margins 
seem to cause a lot of grief.   

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Hung" 
<mhkhung@y...> wrote:
> 
> Great news.. I got the Windows driver to print raw data without
> writing a device driver. 
> 
> Roy and Steve: I will send you a personal email with the source code
> and executable suitable for use in your command line environment.. you
> will pipe data to the executable with something like: 
> 
> ... quadtoprinter ... | rawprint "Epson Stylus Photo 1270"
> 2>...QTRLOG2.TXT
> 
> rawprint.exe takes 2 parameters, the first is the printer-name (as
> defined by user), the optional second is the filename. It reads from
> stdin if the second parameter is missing.
> 
> Steve, to make it user-friendly, you will pass the printer name to
> rawprint.exe. It's the one you have already in the Printer Name dialog
> box.
> 
> I tested it with a raw data file created by quadtoprinter and it's
> prefect. 
> 
> (I don't know which one of you will package the file, I guess it's
> easier for Roy to do it)
> 
> P.S. Roy, while you are at it, can you add a "almost center" feature?
> I was trying to test print a 8x10.4 inch photo with the center
> function on (on a letter size paper). Everything went well until the
> end since the margin is too small (I have pizza wheels removed). With
> the Epson driver/Photoshop the image starts closer to the top of the
> page and there won't be any problem.
> 
> Michael
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Hung"
> <mhkhung@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > OK.. I am installing the DDK on my home machine so I will see what I
> > can do with it.. 
> > 
> > The last time I did printer driver type work was way back in the
> > Win31/Win95 days when I have postscript data to send directly to the
> > printer bypassing the Windows driver. Of course everything is changed
> > now (even the stupid windows driver architecture changed a few times
> > already).