[Virtualacorn-list] Printing

[ATimbrell at aol.com]

In a message dated 02/01/2009 21:13:59 GMT Standard Time,  dave at triffid.co.uk 
writes:

>I've just, I guess, wasted most of this evening so far trying to set  up
>Printers in VRPC AdjustSA, so it's time to ask for  advice.

>On my old PC with a copy of VRPC installed, setting up  Printers was quite
>straight-forward because it had a Parallel printer  port, however the new
>PC doesn't gave a parallel port, so from the  Windows side I have the Laser
>connected to a USB port the cable of which  goes to a Parallel to USB
>converter attached to the Laser Printer... This  works BTW.

>I just can't get this to work at all from the VRPC side,  so any advice
>please?
 
Under VirtualRPC it doesn't matter how the printer is physically
connected. Provided you have a RISC OS driver for the printer
(and I assume you do as the "older" VRPC works OK) and also
provided that Windows can print to the printer then setup is as
per the manual. In brief:
 
Install the RISC OS PDF (Printer Definition File) in the normal way.
Run ShowPrinters (in the HostFS::Harddisc4.$.Printing) directory.
Take a note of the name of the printer you want to use.
Set the RISC OS PDF to print to file with a name of HostFS::xxxxx
(where xxx is the printer name as reported by ShowPrinters)
Save Choices from the Printers iconbar menu.
If you get a disc not found error then the printer name wasn't
correctly entered.
 
That should do it.

Aaron