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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Jun 4, 1999 2:37 am Subject: Printing with SignWriter 4.3 | |
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>For our SignWriting Lab several computers and a laser printer were given >to us to use. I need some advice on on to make the Panasonic KXP 4450 >laser printer to print out SW documents. Is there some special way I need >to configure it. I have no problem printing from the Notebook program in >Windows 3.1. Please help me because this would really help our SignWriter >Lab . >Pastor Ronald H. Dettloff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Ron! How wonderful that you have received donated computers. As you know, printing in MS-DOS is always complicated. That is one of the many reasons why Windows is an improvement over MS-DOS. When programmers worked with MS-DOS years ago, they were not handed standard ways to program printing. There were hundreds of different brands of printers in the world, and the programmers had to program specially to make sure that each printer worked with their software. You can imagine, as a nonprofit organization, we did not have the money to pay a programmer to do that kind of research, so our MS-DOS program was only set up to print from three formats: dot-matrix, Postscript and Hewlett-Packard mode. The problem is that even those three formats were not 100% standard back in the 1980's, so printing is the weakest part of SignWriter 4.3. Obviously we hope to solve these problems in SignWriter 5.0, but meanwhile, until you have the new program, you will have to minipulate SignWriter 4.3 to print with whatever printers you have. So, Ron, the first step is to find the manuals that came with the printers and read them. Try to find a section in the manual about "printing modes" and follow their instructions. Then experiment in SignWriter, playing "mix and match" with the different interfaces, and the different printing modes to see what works. Also, try printing from Windows. If that doesn't work, try printing from MS-DOS. Write to me privately if all this fails! Sooner or later we will fall on the right combination of factors. By the way, it is good you have laser printers, since they work with ColumnMaker, and since SignWriter 4.3 does not always do well with ink-jet printers. Good luck, and keep us posted as to the student's reaction to typing signs - I am curious to know what happens :-) Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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