Printing A1

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OS4 Printing GuideThis is my guide to get printing working on the

amigaone under OS4 and update2.I can only state what is required on my system, but this

should be the same or similar on yours, and also thesame for the applications that I have tested.

Checked that par port address in uboot is set to 0x378.Checked that parallel.device is the latest version (50.4).Checked that printer.device is version 44.39 (Copy from the OS3.9).

Copied PRT and PAR from Storage/DosDrivers to Devs/DOSDrivers.

Copied across required printer drivers from the OS3.9 disk.

Changed par port mode setting in uboot to EPP.Changed Turboprefs to use parallel.device instead Turbopar.Changed a1parallel.device entry to parallel.device in PAR mountlist.Changed use custom device in printer.prefs to DEVS:parallel.device.

Installed Turboprint from A1200 partition.Installed Epson Stylus printer driver from Epson_Color.lha (Aminet).Installed PrintManager39 spooler from Aminet.

Removed Turbospool from WBStartup (Turboprint install).

Added TurboStart to WBStartup.

Added NoTurbo to Amidock.Added PrintManager to Amidock.Added TurboPrefs to Amidock.Added Printer Prefs to Amidock.

Added sys:tools/InitPrinter to userstartup file. So that I dont have to printfrom notepad to initialise the printer.

My system:- A1-G3-XE 800mhz with - Radeon 7000,SoundblasterLive, 80Gb H/Drive, 512Mb ram,DVD ROM, & CDRewriter.Epson Stylus Colour640 printer

Epson EPL-5800 Laser printer

Applications tested:- 1. Turboprint2. Print Manager v393. Wordworth 7

4. FinalWriter 975. Pagestream 4.1

6. Turbocalc 5

7. Photogenics8. AmiPDF & AmiGS

9. Directory Opus10. Graphics Publisher

The Following tweeks are to get printing to work:

11. Multiview

12. Notepad13. FXpaint

14. ImageFX15. DrawStudio 2


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Turboprint print output is second to none, and although some people are

perfectly happy w ith the workbench drivers, I think Turboprint quality is

second to none. J ust install turboprint from y our A1200, it comes on f loppies

so a direct install is not possible, but I moved my A1200 hard drive over to

my A1 and copied it to its own partition. Then I can copy across as, and

w hen I need to. This gives you access to a ll of Turboprints printer drivers,

the more upto da te version you are using the more upto da te the printer

drivers are. Essentially the main program has stayed the same, but the

amount, and ty pe, of printer drivers has been added to w ith each update.Turbospool doesn t w ork under OS4, because it tries to access the hardw are

parallel port directly , and this w orks diferently on the A1. When installing

Turboprint, remove Turbospool from the WBSta rtup draw er.

TurboPrint:

PrintManag er39 is a prnter spooler, and under OS3.9 on my A1200 I used

Turbospool, which doesnt work under OS4. I have two printers on my

system, one is an Epson EP L-5800 Lase printer, w ith 16mb ram, and the

other is an Epson Sty lus Color 640 inkjet. On OS4 only the Epson stylus

requires the use of a spooler, so I have installed PrintManager, an OS4

compiled version is av ailable on OS 4Depot (U tilities/prtman.lha).The printing speed increase (over A1200) is such that on the laser printer the

program prints fa ster than the printer, and the spooler is only required on the

inkjet w hich is used to print pictures, photos and coloured docs.

PrintManager:

Wordworth blows out when trying to print, until you change the default

setting under print setup to be Sheet feeder , by default it is set to

Cut sheet. It is then possible to print text or graphics from Wordworth.

Just a q uick note about Wordw orth there is a problem w ith trying to

enter/change setting s in the text boxes. It simply locks up/freezes the system,

this has been posted on Amigaw orld so hopefully the OS4 D ev team knowabout this. There doesn t seem any off icial place to post bug reports.

Wordworth:

Once I managed to get FinalWriter installed on my A1 it prints straight

away, no problems at all. The installation is the only problem. I did a straight

copy accross from my A1200, and was unable to run finalWriter at all, it

kept hanging the system. The prefs have to be set so that Fina lWriter asks at

startup for the screenmode, once this is set I re-copied over from the A1200,

and FinalWriter w ould then run OK. Once FinalWriter is on tha A1, you can

reset the prefs to w hatever you like.

FinalWriter:

Under Printer Setup it is possible to select a printer type of preferences, and

PageStream will use whatever you have set up in your preferences.

Pa geStream also uses it s ow n print driver system, w hich are printer type

specific and not necessarily printer specific. My Epson EP L-5800 is driven

by the HPLaserjet6L printer driver because the HP drivers are the only

Laserprrinter drivers, but the Epson Sty lus 640 is driven by the Epson Color

600 driver. Y ou need to select the type of printer driver

(Fargo/Epson/Hew lett Packard/Postscript) and then select send to PAR:

There is a wide range of printer drivers available from within PageStream,

many more than the Workbench drivers.

PageStream:


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TurbCalc has a problem/conflic t w ith undefined va riables under OS4.

It is possible to define a variable, or macro, and then delete the actual

location the variable. This leaves the variable name defined but pointing

now nere. On OS 3.9 TurboCa lc ignored this and just carried on, under OS4 it

gets a visit from the G rim Reaper. Once you know this is a problem it is just

a ca se of making sure that you delete the va riable name, under Macro/define

name, w hen you delete a macro or a loca tion used by a variable.

How does this aff ect printing. Well it is possible to select an area of the

spreadsheet as set it as the current printrange using the Settings menu. Textw ill print out OK but a g raphic print just blow s the system (G rim Reaper).

The settings/printrange menu option sets up a variable called

PRINTRANG E w ith the reference to the area selected. It is then also

possible, using the same settings menu, to set the printrange to automatic

w hich means the w hole spreadsheet is printed out. To do this TurboCa lc sets

the variable PRINTRANG E to nothing, i.e. creating an undefined variable.

On OS 3.9 TurboCa lc just carries on as normal but on OS4 this gets a visit

from the G rim Reaper. The soloution is to delete the PRINTRANG E

variable and then everything will print as normal.

TurboCalc:

Photogenics has printer drivers (NG IO) for Studioprint and Turboprint, but

selecting either has va rious problems. S electing Turboprint gives a v isit from

the grim reaper, I have emailed Paul Nolan, and he stated that an updated

printer driver was not possible. With Studio, it comes on f loppies so is

dificult to install on the A1. I installed it on my A1200 and copied the

resulting f iles accross to the A1, but got the G rim reaper. Essentially this

means that there is no direct printing f rom Photogennics, but you can save

your pictures and print from other applications.

Photogenics:

There are three different options for hard copy printing f rom these twoprograms w ith varying results. Workbench drivers, turboprint drivers, or

printer specific drivers, all o f w hich are selectable from the print menu.

Printing f rom AmiPD F, and AmiG S does not work with Turbprint running

on w orkbench. The Turboprint device in G hostscript8.1 is broken and does

not w ork. If Turboprint is running both AmiPD F, and AmiG S try to use the

G hostscript turbprint.device. S o to print w ith the workbench preference

printer, you need to uninstall turboprint before try ing to print f rom either of

these programs, and print w ith the native Amiga printer drivers (from

OS3,9). [This is why I installed NoTurbo and Turboprefs to Amidock,

one click on NoTurbo and Turboprint is stopped from running, and then

select Turboprefs and use, to get it running aga in.]

For the same reason the Turboprint options obviously don t w ork either.

Under update 2, and I dont jknow if this is me or the update, I cannot print

using the w orkbench printers option.

The third option w orks well under update2, and I can t say I tested it under

update1, as I w as able happy to print using the workbench printer option.

Select the printer driver for your type of printer, and not necessarily the

specific printer. ie. I use HP laserjet4 driver on my Epson EP L-5800 laser

printer, and there is a specific driver for my Epson Stylus Color 640. If you

know that your printer has some form of emulation installed, such as either

HP or Epson.There are also options to print to va rious file formats such as pdf, ps, eps,

jpeg, a nd png, but I have not tested them as this is about hard copy printing.

AmiPDF&AmiGS:


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This is version 4 off o f the OS 4pre CD , and this just prints perfectly OK .Directory Opus:

This is part of the Turboprint package, and is useful for knocking up quick

pages w ith photos, and text. Such as notices, fly ers, or adverts, and as you

w ill be running Turboprint, this prints perfectly , a t 24bit quality .

It seems to be picky with some jpeg files, but loading and saving them

through ImageFX seems to solve any problems.

Graphics

Publisher:

This is part off OS4, and just prints straight away.Multiview:

This is part off OS4, and just prints straight away.Notepad:

This printed straight away, and all settings seem to work correctly.FXpaint:

Once this is installed correctly, w hat a pain as it overw rites some OS4

classes, and trashes AmiDock, check that Superprefs is selected as the print

module , and ImageFX prints perfectly.

ImageFX:

Again once this is installed correctly, it prints perfectly OK.

This program w ill use dr2d and eps vector graphic files as w ell as bitmaps

and text, very useful for presentations, or advertising documents. It will also

export as ps, or eps files including the bitmaps. I was realy surprised when I

inadvertenty opened a dr2d file and was able export as an eps file. As

metview doesn t w ork correctly on OS 4 this is one w ay convert vector files.

Drawstudio2:

I do not have a netw ork set up yet, but it is possible to print to a netw orked

printer. The following are from postings on Amigaworld.net:

Sof tw are w ise NetPa r and NetParlpr provide netw ork access, and P rinter

device wise there is lpr-dev by Olaf B arthel w hich are all dow nloadable

from Aminet. If it is not an ethernet enabled printer you will need a USB

print server that allow s you to use any USB printer as a netw ork printer.

Thanks to Chris_Y and Sandpiper for their comments on Amigaworld.net.

It is also possible to print to a non-networked printer, via AmigaSamba, andSieG el, has posted some very long threads on Amigaw orld.net helping

people out.

For further information on Network printing on the A1, do a search on

Amigaworld, for lpr-dev, netpar, netparlpr, and AmigaSamba.

I w ould reiterate these comments and soloutions on Network printing are not

my ow n, but include them only f or completeness.

Network Printing:

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