#BJC600 – Multiview
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Wolf,
Glad I checked before replying – switching to B/W does not work – sorry.
Regarding your discussion with Betty – I'm also confused. I've set the Emul to
BJC600 and have left it there ever since regardless of what I print (Multiview,
DOpus, ProWrite or Pagestream) which represents a combination of text only,
text+graphics, graphics only, colour and B/W. What's the problem ?
Perhaps when you say text you are referring to the built in printer fonts? If
so I guess it would print faster (?) but I'm perfectly satisfied with the way
it works now.
By my definition, if you set up a program once and forget its there its a
pretty good piece of work – well done !!!
Steve
Daring to be different, Amiga on the Internet, Lotus on the Interstatee
Ha! Steve,
you found a feature in the BJ/BJC driver when set to Extended Emulation. Yes,
you can print text in Extended Emulation as long as you don't print graphics.
Once you print graphics, the driver will not allow you to print text anymore.
You can print text after graphics again once the driver has been flushed out of
memory. You can do this by using the shell command "AVAIL FLUSH". Another
method is to start CanonPref and immeaditly quit by clicking on "USE" (or use
the "USE" Tooltype in order to get a program that simply flushes the driver
without poping up a window).
And this is also the main rason why the manual warns people from changing
driver settings while printing. In this case the driver might not get flushed
as it is in use. And the next time you print might not work right. Even if you
do make that mistake, the driver usual does handle it right… but there are
some cases where a user fault might make things go wrong.
Steve, in your case there is another item to discuss: MultiView, DOpus,
ProWrite(?) print using the printers text mode. If you use the PageStream
driver that came with the CanonDisk, you don't have to worry about anything.
The Canon PGS driver does use Extended Emulation. But after printing it does
reset the printer back to the printer emulation defined by the printer dip
switches (BJ/Epson). It also flushes the Workbench printer driver out of memory
if loaded. So the mode defined in CanonPref doesn't affect the PageStream
driver. However, after using the PageStream driver you can print text again
with your Workbench driver in Exetended Emulation mode.
So you see, in your case it doesn't matter Steve what you have defined in
CanonPref. The only time you print graphics is with PGS and that doesn't affect
the WB driver.
Complicated to read? That's why I simply state in the manual "don't print text
in extended emulation" even though often it does work…
> in your case it doesn't matter
Just the way I like it <vbg>
And thanks for thorough and prompt response.
Steve
Daring to be different, Amiga on the Internet, Lotus on the Interstatee