[Virtualacorn-list] Printing

[Dave Symes]

In article <d50.3e8e49b3.36909194 at aol.com>,
   VA <atimbrell at aol.com> wrote:
> 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 
>  

Thanks for the input Aaron.
I was doing exactly as you note above...

Printing something from Imp Publisher, "Printing page 1" resulted in 
nothing happening, not even an error message. It just vanished somewhere.
(Not even in ...Scrap.Printers BTW.)

I've just reset up everything, but it just will not print.
Going back to Uniprint and it immediately prints.

Cheers
Dave S

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