USB Printer on OS4?

@Hans

Sorry Im a Duuuh!!!
I did mean to write HP 1020,
Reading about epson made me write it!!!
Must be all this snow we have over here, making my head go funny.

Anyway, I have tried all the drivers LaserJet etc and none works, I have read that there is some sort of init needed for it like the epson printer.
Some reported somewhere that they managed to print from their HP 1020 after printing on Linux.
Ive looked but cant find any info.

@Curty

Found it: here

This printer needs to have its firmaware loaded when switched on. You'll need to download the firmware file from the linux driver. Get it from here. For now, set up your USBPRT: the way I did so that it bypasses the printer driver. After that type:
copy sihp1020.dl USBPRT:

See if the printer responds after that. If it does, we might be able to create a more elegant solution.

Hans

@Hans

Cool, Thnks for that.
I'll try it in a bit and let you know how I get on.

@Hans

I copy the firmware to the printer and it seems to startup like it does on the PC,
Orange light flashes and spins up.
Still aint been able to print tho.

@Curty

Well that sounds promising at least. It sounds like the firmware is being uploaded and then run. I'm surprised they did it this way. It almost sounds like they built the prototype using an ARM development board and then couldn't be bothered to finish the hardware off properly.

Anyway, try copying a text filr to USBPRT:, see if it does anything. Otherwise, if you have the OS3.9 or OS3.5 disks, try some of the laserjet drivers, hopefully one of them will be similar enough (look in the storage folder on SYS:).

Hans

@Hans

:(
No luck,
Tried every LJ driver I could find and no print out,
Dang it!!!
Seemed so promising.

@Curty

Pity. But then, we know that we need more printer drivers. Actually, a new print API would be even better.

Hans

@Raziel

This whole USBprinter topic sucks! I ready to take a hammer to you and the printers!

Just jokeing!

The Epson C88+ also has a Parallel port. I may play with that instead of a hammer.

@All

The easiest solution is not to buy Epson printers in the first place, 20 years ago they were good, 10 years ago when they introduced the stylus printers epson went bad, the build quality went right downhill, I worked in a repair shop around that time and went from hardly every seeing an epson printer to the majority of broken printers.

I recommend that you use Canon inkjets and brother or tally lasers with amigas.

Avoid the 'big boys' of the home printer market like Epson, HP and lexmark, they have all realised what lazy sods pc users are and will use a faulty printer as an excuse to dump the old one and buy a newer model, therefore they build disposable crap.

Edit: fixxin dogdy spullin...

@Hans

Runing usbmgr in linux (kernel 2.4.x) will make my HP LaserJet 1010 work in AOS 4.0. Maybe looking at the sources in that program can give be of some help?

@Severin

The easiest solution is not to buy Epson printers in the first place

That's kind of a dumb remark. How about just not buying Amiga computers
all to together and avoid any problems.

Epson Color Stylus IIs was the best printer I've used on classical Amiga.
Why not again?

@Snuffy

It might be a dumb remark but it's TRUE.

I've had numerous Epson printers lose sync and the carriage slam against the side.

I vowed to never buy another Epson and bought a HP instead...

But..

I found i needed to print onto dvd's ( I film weddings) and Epson had just released one of the first ( ie: cheapshit) direct to dvd printers so I succumbed and bought that...

As per usual one week later DaveyD told me Canon had released a price comparable printer that was much better !!

Epson is... Photo R300

@Hans

So, if i understand you correctly i have to

1. Download the v40 EpsonColor driver and install it
2. Use/Save it in Printer Prefs
3. Compile your Init string and execute
4. Be able to print?

@hotrod

Quote:

Probably not usbmgr. My guess is that the printer driver installs something that runs when usbmgr is run to initialise the printer. You'd have to look through the printer driver's sources. Details for that printer have been a bit sketchy.

Hans

@Raziel

Quote:

Correct. You might want to add Joerg's modification though. Either way, you're not going to get colour prints, but it will print something.

Hans

@Hans

I'm kind of a no-coder really, could you post the correct
.c file with joergs changes again, please?

@Snuffy

You may just have got one of the good ones, but believe me, I saw more broken Epson Stylus series printers than any other come in for repair, some people just changed the cartridge and the printer never worked again... early fatalities to their cartridge chipping technology.

I know VERY FEW people who haven't had to replace an Epson printer under warrenty. I will admit that Epson's warrenty service is excellent, must be all the practice they get...

oh, btw, if you want a dumb remark try:

"I've got an Amiga but I want an Epson printer so I'd better throw away the Amiga and join the Windows herd..."

@Raziel

If I have time, I'll modify and test it this evening.

Hans

@Hans

Thank you very much

@Outcast

@Severin

I'm just moving around the Amiga world according to my previous experiences!

Umm, isn't "truth" relative rather universal...