OT: printer driver and/or info on Canon BJC-4100

I created a text file that said , "This is a test" and printed it to a file ...

Here's what I see in a hex editor so you can see any control codes:

0D 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ....... 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4E 65 77 20 54 65 78 74 20 44 6F New Text Do 63 75 6D 65 6E 74 20 28 32 29 2E 74 78 74 0D 0A cument (2).txt.. 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 This is a 20 74 65 73 74 0D 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A test........... 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A ................ 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A ................ 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 0A 20 20 20 20 20 20 .......... 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 50 61 67 65 20 31 0C Page 1.

There are only a carriage return, line feeds and a form feed in the file.

Give it a try.

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try the epsonfx driver.

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lighter standards include TTY, Epson FX, and possibly PCL

Twain is just a way for application software to communicate with proprietry scanner driver software.

that's because USB storage is a hardware standard, (as is HID.)

That's also why usb-hard disk adaptors only talk to the IDE master address and not the slave address. (although may be it's possible to do a hardware mod to reverse this)

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Install linux in a virtual machine install the CUPS driver for that printer and tell windows the linux CUPS server is a postscript printer. The linux driver appears to come with full source and was last updated in 2011.

For some reason Microsoft decided that printers should be managed by the OS kernel. I can't see the printer manufacturers being upset by this decision. Under linux only the link layer (ethernet, usb, parllel or serial) is managed by the kernel but the printer driver is in user space.

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Ah! Well, sorry about that. There's no excuse then. I did not realize that Win7 even came in 32 bit flavors.

-- Les Cargill

Buy an office/professional grade HP printer. The thing is that cheap inkjet printers use the CPU in the computer for rastering and have very little logic/processing power inside them. That requires a complex driver which is difficult to maintain because every driver is specific for a certain type of printer. The more expensive HP printers use a more or less standard protocol so you can often use a different driver for a printer.

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So far, the best i can do is cause a batch program "COPY LPT1:" for TEXT files.

Remember PKZIP and PKUNZIP? DOS programs that seem to be 102% compatible in BOTH directions with the latest Winzip..

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   Works for short files..will do some more extensive testing.
   Thanks.

Note: "CHEAP inkjet printers". Translation: Pay thru the nose for the damn Osmium-plated cartridges..

Well, Win7 has a number of them: Epson FX series 1 (80), Epson FX series 1 (136), Epson FX 2175, Epson FX 2190 ver 2.0, and the Epson FX

890 ver 2.0. The best one can say about them (they all act the same) is that they do graphics. But 20DPI resolution is not exactly the best, and having a 10.5 inch document stretched to 14 inches is also not exactly the best either. What i am doing is i installed a HP color postscript printer directed to a file. After doing whatever documentation i need, i reboot to Win2K and then print using GSView.

Hell, you should have seen the fun of setting up a printer for the old Commodore computers, if it wasn't 'Commodore Compatible'. The control codes had to be used when you wrote the software. You had the choice of Commodore's serial version of IEEE-488, real IEEE-488 or RS-232. Later, there were Commodore's serial IEEE-488 to Centronics. I had real fun with one setup that used three different types of printers. The port determined the required IEEE-488 address, even if it was RS-232. Writing custom software was easy, if you had a working printer module for the printer you wanted to use.

The worst program I ever saw was a databse written for the C-64, & the 801 printer. Instead of using linefeed & CR, the programmer just padded the end of every line and kept printing as the printer forced LF/CR when it's buffer overflowed.

will work with win

7 & win 8.

Thanks for that, but I have in effect given it away to the VH now. It is more than a decade old and owes me nothing.

Regards, Martin Brown

Typical M$ lie (at least for 32-bit version).

That software will drive over 1500 USB interfaced scanners.

use.

The internal language of CUPS is Postscript, then they leverage many printer vendors PS to device conversions. =20 More often for older (10 y +) graphical printers the vendor published the proper escape code language e.g. Epson EscP2. Which is valid for their Stylus Photo R200 printer, and possibly many newer models.

You are remembering the antique WinPrinters. They are gone now, went the way of the dodos. HP printers almost always included PCL or HPGL or both (ThinkJet was an exception). Now they almost always include Postscript = as well, due to the dramatic cost drop in processing power. Remember the very early Apple LaserWriters included Postscript and had nothing better than a 20 MHz 68K to run them.

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