Digital BW, The Print

It by passes the driver and printer subsystem and prints to the raw
device.  This feature only exists in the command line, and the device
name is lptx (which represents a virtual port).  the only way to get
access to the raw device without writing a custom printer driver that
also controls I/O is to use the printer sharing feature of Windows
(all windows printer drivers support older dos style printing). 
Printer sharing requires a network to function.

If you have an exisitng network installed, all you have to do to take
advantage of QTR is to share your printer.  

I know that this is a bit cursory explanation but as someone who used
to write printer drivers I am impressed with the simple elegance that
Roy used to drive windows printers.

Brentley


--- Peter Nelson <pnweb@...> wrote:

> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Easley" 
> <ken@k...> wrote:
> > 
> > I have been able to install and get QTR to work over USB, but as
> of 
> yet, not my network. 
> 
> I asked a related question yesterday but have not, as yet, received
> a 
> response.
> 
> Could someone PLEASE explain what the Quadtone RIP needs a network 
> for, how it uses the network, etc?   Thanks.   
> 
> Unlike some people, who have to use a loopback adapter, I actually 
> HAVE a perfectly good network with a heterogeneous mix of Windows
> and 
> Linux, but the PC I'll be running on is directly connected to my 
> 2200, so  don't understand how the network even factors into it.
> 
> Could someone please clarify this?
> 
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