My printer is an old PCL 6 command language printer. Just send it a simple PCL string and it will do anything I want. New win printers have all their smarts removed and placed in a windows file. Windows now does what the inner works of the printer use to do. It forces you to use windows.
cheers DS On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:20:45 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> writes: > Excerpt from Eric Auer: > > > High Definition Audio controllers are currently not supported. > > > By the way: > > > > I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits > for > > > windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha. > > > I will have to search for this dossound. It might be the > answer. > > > That is not the only problem. Winmodems and Win GDI printers etc. > > often do not support "normal" command languages. Instead, there > > is only a proprietary interface to some low level device. In the > > Winmodem case, this is often a simple "soundcard". All the smart > > things to turn data into tones and back have to be done by some > > Windows (or Linux) driver, so just starting Windows is not enough > > to "activate" the modem for DOS. For printers, your mileage may > > vary - they may at least support plain text but that might indeed > > depend on some Windows driver "activating" the printer at boot. > > What I have is Intel Hogh Definition Audio: works with FreeBSD and > NetBSD current versions, but I haven't tried with FreeDOS. > > I've been unable to get my printer, HP LaserJet Professional 1212nf > MFP working. > > Now I think it might be nonstandard implementation of PostScript or > whatever command language. > > Why would HP have hplip when other printer manufacturers have no > such thing? > > But can a laser or inkjet printer with standard interface work in > FreeDOS? > > Considering that I can't boot FreeDOS with EMM386 or anything of > that kind, I'm very reluctant to try anything too complicated with > FreeDOS: leave that to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux or Haiku. > > Tom > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Protect what matters > Floods can happen anywhere. Learn your risk and find an agent today. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/557063225d92263211c16mp03duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
