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#Printer Driver Info

    28-Sep-94 13:34:13
Fm: Eduard Joseph 74603,3262
To: Wolf Faust 100116,1070
I just got the ROM Kernel Manual (I could not beleive I could find anything for the Amiga now a days but some FAITHFULL (maybe HOPEFULL) stores had it. Yes, on a first glance it looks like I would need to only change the transfer.c (sorry i do not have the time do debug assembly YET). But I do not know if I need to actually support the ASCII part of printing since this printer is so stupid it won't even print ASCII (No characters built in). Pretty much, all the printer can do is print dots of any of 7 colors, complain when something is wrong, clean the jets, and initialize itself. Do you know if a printer need to suppport character printing? If so looks like I need to do quite a bit of work as I will probably need to generate the characters in the computer and then send the entire bitmap matrix down. As far as someone done this before, I don't think so. This is printer is the Tecktronix Phaser III PXi without the RISC/Postscript engine. Making it the must stupid operational printer in the world. It has very little memory (enough to store a row of dots). The printer model is the Tektronix Phaser III RX and as fard as I know the only people that sold it was us through an OEM agreement with Tektronix.