What printer for MorphOS ?
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Amigaharry2
    Posts: 1280 from 2010/1/6
    From: EU-Austria (Wien)
    Guess this is a GDI-Printer! (-> Language is PCLmS, UMF, PWG)
    Don't think that there will be any luck, to get that working under MorphOS - or Zukow let's happen a miracle.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    jPV
    Posts: 2096 from 2003/2/24
    From: po-RNO
    I just bought a new printer... after comparing specs of printers currently available to buy as new in my country, I decided to go to Xerox B230, which supports PCL 5 (and 6) and PostScript level 3.

    I've now printed three pages and it seems to work just fine under MorphOS. PostScript printing with the new printing system (Printers) works, and also old programs with TurboPrint (Printer) do work, yay \o/

    The third page was from my A1200, and it works from there too with an older TurboPrint. BTW. FinalWriter was soo slow on 060@60/Voodoo3 compared when running on MorphOS... on both writing and printing :) Brrr....

    I guess printing should work with B225 and B235 multifunction printers too, as they share the same specs for printing, but no idea if scanning would work. And probably color versions C230 and C235 would work too... and maybe other Xerox models have kept the good compatibility, but I haven't checked their specs.
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  • Caterpillar
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    Trekman
    Posts: 35 from 2020/11/10
    From: Germany
    Just a question : The new print system does support ESC/PR as I read in the library section. Am I right assuming that this means it supports Epson printers which speak ESC/P or ESC/P2 too?
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    Trekman
    Posts: 35 from 2020/11/10
    From: Germany
    Anyone ?
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    polluks
    Posts: 803 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
    Indeed, ESC/P-R is just a variant.
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  • »29.05.24 - 12:24
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  • Caterpillar
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    Trekman
    Posts: 35 from 2020/11/10
    From: Germany
    Yes, and it seems to be the latest variant. Unfortunately I cannot find if it is backward compatible to ESC/P or ESC/P2. Did someone try it with an Epson printer ?
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  • Caterpillar
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    Trekman
    Posts: 35 from 2020/11/10
    From: Germany
    OK... in the example which is shown in the library an Epson DX7400 is used with ESC/PR driver. This older printer (Epson Stylus DX7400) speaks only ESC/P2. So the ESC/PR driver seems to be backward compatible. :-)
  • »31.05.24 - 14:45
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