From: tpang@fraser.sfu.ca (Tsui Ting Debbie Pang)
Subject: Re: A-MaxII 2.51 and printing
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:50:02 GMT

tom@microsoft.com (Tom McConnell) writes:
>OK.  I've got a couple of questions to put to you gurus.
>1. Is there an A-Max FAQ?

Yes ,this is a FAQ.

>2. Has anyone every gotten this thing to PRINT!?!?!?

There were some bugs on printing pre 2.5x versions. But it is fixed now.

>More Detail:
>   I have a HP-DeskJet (not DeskWriter) which is hooked up to
>my printer port.  I have A-Max set up to use Port B as printer port
>with NO emulation.  I have a HP-DeskWriter printer driver which says
>that it will use the "Serial port" to communicate.  

I don't understand, why are you using the DeskWriter driver for a DeskJet?
This is your problem. It has nothing to do with the AMax, many people on
comp.sys.mac.? asked the same thing everyday. You need different printer
drivers, just like you do in Amiga environment, and anything else. The
DeskWriter only works with it's driver, and so is the DeskJet. understand?

>   When I select the driver via the chooser, I select the printer icon
>and not the serial icon. When I try to print, the app (Word) complains
>it can't find theprinter.
>Has anyone ever hooked one of these beasts up?  Is there something I
>am doing wrong?

See above.

>Any guidence is appreciated in advance!

The solution is: There are currently 2 commercial printer drivers for the
DeskJet for Macintosh. One is called MacPrint, and includes a cable for
Mac, and many drivers for non-Mac specific printers including the DeskJet.
Second one is by GDTSoftWorks, and it's called JetLinkExpress (which the
name might have changed, I haven't checked lately), and has drivers for
LaserJet, and DeskJet etc. Also there is a PD freebie, which is written by
2 Scandinivians, called DeskJet 2.1, and a 3.0 is in Beta testing now, this
is a very good driver and very flexible in configuration. 3.0 has a lot
more feature. 2.1 came with a very nicely written manual on file (long too).
All 3 solutions are widely adapted on this newsgroup readers and all have
very good success (it was the pre 2.5 bugs that made it print badly, but
new AMax version is fine now).

>Thanks!
You are welcome.

>-Tom
>p.s. This is on a A1000 BTW.
I also have a A1000 but my AMax is on the A3000, so I've not tried it yet.
Make sure you have the right kind of printer cable since the A1000 parallel
port (probably serial also) is non-standard!

>to find a HP driver which sakl
The PD DJ driver is available on most popular mac ftp sites, try
sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Bye,
David

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