Digital BW, The Print

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).