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Printer Interface
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:42 pm
by JamesParsons
Ok most of you people probably don't remember me. I was here a year or two ago and came asking n00b questions not bothering to do much research myself. I have matured and learned a lot working with 8-bit computers. My question is since most printers has OS specific qualities, How would I interface with the. Hopefully I want to soon be able to print ASCII text. Will I have to port the print drivers to my OS, or could I just print directly through hardware. Also how could I make sure that a printer was in instead of a scanner. Thanks ahead of time
Re: Printer Interface
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:01 pm
by Brendan
Hi,
JamesParsons wrote:Ok most of you people probably don't remember me. I was here a year or two ago and came asking n00b questions not bothering to do much research myself. I have matured and learned a lot working with 8-bit computers. My question is since most printers has OS specific qualities, How would I interface with the. Hopefully I want to soon be able to print ASCII text. Will I have to port the print drivers to my OS, or could I just print directly through hardware. Also how could I make sure that a printer was in instead of a scanner. Thanks ahead of time
Printers don't have OS specific qualities. What they have is device specific qualities. To hide device specific qualities most OSs use device drivers.
Basically, you have different device drivers for different printers.
Cheers,
Brendan