Printgear on XP

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Duncan

If anyone is still interested in doing this (thereby getting
600dpi) there is a clunky workaround. Install a Windows 95
virtual machine that runs under XP (checkout the Microsoft
product Virtual PC 2004). You can print postscript to a file;
pass it to the Windows 95 VM; open it with Ghostscript and
print to your printgear printer.

It is a bit tedious by hand but I can't find a good way of
automating it. If anyone comes up with a smart way of doing
this let me know at duncan.hardy @ the above domain. Thanks.

Duncan

PS Unfortunately Virtual PC isn't cheap unless you have another
use for it. Fun to play with tho'... Evaluation copies are
available for download from Microsoft.
 
If anyone is still interested in doing this (thereby getting
600dpi) there is a clunky workaround. Install a Windows 95
virtual machine that runs under XP (checkout the Microsoft
product Virtual PC 2004). You can print postscript to a file;
pass it to the Windows 95 VM; open it with Ghostscript and
print to your printgear printer.

It is a bit tedious by hand but I can't find a good way of
automating it. If anyone comes up with a smart way of doing
this let me know at duncan.hardy @ the above domain. Thanks.
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I think you could do that with PrintFile
<http://www.lerup.com/printfile/>.
You can print PS to file, and Printfile can be setup to watch a
folder, and run any PS files that appear there through GS. I did this
quite successfully with a DOS app that printed to PS and a PCL
printer.

This page <http://www.computergripes.com/NecSuperScript870.html> may
be of interest.
 
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