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#Phaser 300i driver

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#159913From: Stephen SponagleAug 16, 1994 10:56 AM
I have access to a Tektronics Phaser 300i color thermal wax printer. Is there a printer driver out there that would run this beast? -Steve
#159922From: Wolf FaustAug 16, 1994 1:45 PM
Sorry, don't know… but isn't PS available on this machine? Or is it just optional? — Wolf Faust, Am Dorfgarten 10, 60435 Frankfurt, Germany —
#159964From: Stephen SponagleAug 16, 1994 8:39 PM
I'm not sure, (sorry, its a Phaser 220i) but I hooked it up and selected the PS driver and sent an image to it via ADPro… nothing, it just sat there. The owner of the printer said that it isn't directly Postscript compatable. Ads for their 400 printer claim full Postscript compatable, so one would figure, eh? BTW, did I hear something about the Amiga's PS driver being broken? -Steve
#160094From: Wolf FaustAug 17, 1994 6:00 PM
Oh… don't remember me… I just had my fights with that stupid PS WB driver… I should have known better as I allready did some checks and the driver allways showed serious bugs. Well, to make it short: the driver won and my printer and I lost 🙁 But well, I heard someone does use the driver with success. I just haven't found that someone yet… the bugs I found are mainly timing related… so it might work sometimes… — Wolf Faust, Am Dorfgarten 10, 60435 Frankfurt, Germany —
#160343From: Stephen SponagleAug 19, 1994 9:46 AM
Sorry to hear that. Luckily, I still use an impact printer. just hoping to have some luck hooking up this thermal wax printer. I made an invite to my daughter's first birthday which has a scanned picture of her in it. I ended up bringing it into Photoshop on a Mac. But, Photoshop doesn't print too well to this printer. My friend takes images into Illustrator, which does print very well to it.