[H-GEN] Printer setup help

[Matthew Tippett]

About winprinters...
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You don't really write a driver as such.  If I understand correclty
a 'winprinter' acts pretty much the same as the old dot-matrix type 
printers.  That is the page has to be 'rendered' before it can be
passed on the the printer.

This differs from most laser printers because they can accept a 
page description (PS,PCL, etc), and then do the rendering themselves.

Winprinters exist because you can basically drop the rendering
part of the system and let the operating system do the work.  There
are parallels with the winmodems that do error correction/data
compression
on the host and the modem is just dumb.

So to achieve what you want probably the best place to look is at
the ghostscript program.  This should allow you to do the rendering
of the page into a format that the printer can then print.

The Linux parallel interface should be pretty much standard for 
any type of printer and so you can even stay out of kernel-land!!

You might want to have a poke around 

	http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/

to see if your printer is already supported :).

PS for the other guy who was looking for the Esc/P2 drivers, it looks
like it is in ghostscript already.

Cheers,

Matt