Digital BW, The Print

Michael--

that's great news! will your solution allow use of QTR with Win98?

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> 
> 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).
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