What is the current situation with printing in OS4 on real hardware?

@mcleppa

Thanks for working on this. I suggest you also support programs sending pages in PostScript format, because AmigaOS raster format is a bit too limiting. Printers do a better job when rendering text directly instead of receiving a pre-rendered bitmap.

I remember trying converting a page to a bitmap first, and then printing it (on Windows), and the text was fuzzy due to dithering. Printing the file directly resulted in crisp text.

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Nice! Is this something that could be converted to general mdns/dns-sd support? One thing I'd like to do with ZitaFS, is automatically detecting servers on the LAN, and that's exactly what mdns/dns-sd is for.

Hans

I've been looking at Ghostscript, which has an impressive array of capabilities, including a PCL engine. Our port is old, and an update would go a long way for most users.

The build instructions are here: https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Make.html

Happy porting!

Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@Hans

the mdns sourcecode is easy adaptable for your use, I can send you the sourcecode when I get back home from vacation.

@mcleppa

I think probably around here: https://github.com/chris-y/ipp-device/ ... ps/ipp_dev/ipp_dev.c#L950

That's where I'm opening the env-var for the config, so I think you could probably pop up a GUI to pick the printer at that point.

But according to the header, I last looked at this about ten years ago!

/me is cheering at everyone working on this and helping out

Thanks a lot