Digital BW, The Print

Brentley Beerline wrote:
> 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

My Wasatch SoftRip uses a "text only" Windows printer driver to 
dump the data to the printer. That way it can rely on its own 
spooling and bypasses the Windows control on printers. I've 
mentioned that as an alternative for QTR to the network solution. 
So it could be done in another way. However Roy's solution has 
the nice advantage that the Epson driver still functions and can 
be used for all what QTR can't do.

Ernst