USB (DOT4) Printers & OS4.1 **Testing in Progress**

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2011/8/21 12:59 #221

Amigans Defender

So, is this going to be part of Update 3?

Mr. Bump

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2011/8/21 23:57 #222

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Quote:

Chris wrote:
So, is this going to be part of Update 3?

Mr. Bump

hey great a bumper other than me on this thread

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2011/8/22 7:58 #223

Not too shy to talk

I'm no longer involved with usb for os4.

And I never got finished with the 1284.4 printer support.

So this will no be included with the next os update.

“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2011/8/22 12:35 #224

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@rwo

That's a shame. Can you release what you have? As I think it's probably newer/better than the current version on OS4Depot.

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2011/8/22 13:39 #225

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Quote:

Chris wrote:
@rwo

That's a shame. Can you release what you have? As I think it's probably newer/better than the current version on OS4Depot.

ditto that & thanks for the help.

@ all
Anyone willing to take this on as there's a bounty for it still pending at amigabounty.net ??

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 on Samflex **Beta driver at OS4depot**

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Quote:

rwo wrote:
I'm no longer involved with usb for os4.

And I never got finished with the 1284.4 printer support.

So this will no be included with the next os update.

Sad indeed, thanks for the work-in-progress.

Is there a possibility that your share of work is subnmitted to bounty / some other team?

So sad AmigaOS is progressing in many ways, but not in modern printer drivers

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2012/7/6 20:13 #227

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finally success!

today I tried out the hp_photosmart driver that just came out on os4depot and along with rwo's beta usb dot4 printer driver (usbdot4.device)I finally got my HP LaserJet 1012 printer to work under OS4.1 via USB

thanks to Olaf & Damien for the updated driver

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2012/7/8 17:05 #228

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to those that have asked, just go to Prefs-printers and use the new driver and choose usbdot4 as your device set to unit 0 as per the attached screenshot & here's the link to rwo's DOT4 driver on OS4depot.

prefs screenshot

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Cass

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2012/7/12 14:08 #229

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Lucky you!

I just tried the new photosmart driver & the DOT4 device but no responce : dead as before.
Maybe it`s a totally different printer (host-based), though I`ve clicked the "Always init printer".

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2012/9/26 22:55 #230

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@ Cass

did you get it ever get it working? what printer are you using as I'm printing fine with my HP LaserJet 1012 (text only though)

Edited by 328gts on 2013/2/17 15:30:07

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/16 23:59 #231

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guys, things are shaping up nicely for terminillis and his AROS driver (gutenprint from Linux)over over at AW & aros-exec. I just now was able to print text & graphics for the 1st time on either AmigaOS4.x or Aros via USB on my HP LaserJet 1012 (DOT4) printer with his new driver on my netbook running AspireOS!

gutenprint AW thread

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 3:52 #232

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Quote:

328gts wrote:
guys, things are shaping up nicely for terminillis and his AROS driver (gutenprint from Linux)over over at AW & aros-exec. I just now was able to print text & graphics for the 1st time on either AmigaOS4.x or Aros via USB on my HP LaserJet 1012 (DOT4) printer with his new driver on my netbook running AspireOS!

gutenprint AW thread

As I've said elsewhere I'm trying to make gutenprint available on all of the Amigaoid platforms. once I make sure it doesn't use the arosc.library(I may have to make a few changes) I will test the 68k version on AOS 3.1. If it runs on 3.1 there is a good chance it will run on AOS4.

As of right now I've confirmed the Canon and PCL drivers are working.

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 4:16 #233

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@ terminills

many thanks for taking this on for the community!

btw, the updated TestPrint program you released today works great (text & graphics)on my HP LaserJet 1012 via USB on my netbook running AspireOS

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Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 10:03 #234

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@terminills

If this is interfacing directly with USB (which it sounds like it is, if Dot4 is working), how are you achieving that? I think if you make it compatible with ANAIIS when you port it over to OS3.1 then it should automatically work on OS4.

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 19:08 #235

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Quote:

Chris wrote:
@terminills

If this is interfacing directly with USB (which it sounds like it is, if Dot4 is working), how are you achieving that? I think if you make it compatible with ANAIIS when you port it over to OS3.1 then it should automatically work on OS4.

actually in the case of the testprint I'm using the AROS copytopar program with the USB flag which uses usbparallel.device instead of parallel.device. The current state I'm at is proving that the drivers are creating the correct output for the printers.

in cass' case it seems the hp-lj_1015 should work.

However once it's complete it will be a matter of selecting Gutenprint just like you would in any other printer driver. I chose to go the ijs route because I could keep my driver(which in this case will be the ijs client) pretty generic. This way when I port the hplip drivers I can reuse most of the code.

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 19:16 #236

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@terminills

OK, thanks. Unfortunately that means it doesn't give us automatic Dot4 support, although the fact AROS' usbparallel.device works might mean a port of that could provide it (but I have no idea how compatible - if at all - AROS' USB stack is with OS4's)

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/18 19:20 #237

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Quote:

Chris wrote:
@terminills

OK, thanks. Unfortunately that means it doesn't give us automatic Dot4 support, although the fact AROS' usbparallel.device works might mean a port of that could provide it (but I have no idea how compatible - if at all - AROS' USB stack is with OS4's)

It's just poseidon you may be able to try the version from AROS 68K to see if you even need to port it persay.

Re: USB Printers & OS4.1 **Beta driver at OS4depot**

Posted on: 2013/2/19 21:08 #238

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Quote:

terminills wrote:
Quote:

Chris wrote:
@terminills

OK, thanks. Unfortunately that means it doesn't give us automatic Dot4 support, although the fact AROS' usbparallel.device works might mean a port of that could provide it (but I have no idea how compatible - if at all - AROS' USB stack is with OS4's)

It's just poseidon you may be able to try the version from AROS 68K to see if you even need to port it persay.

So I decided to implement a stand alone prefs system for gutenprint because at least on AROS the standard prefs don't have everything I need.

I'm not using any AROS only functions in it so it should be a simple compile to the other platforms. :)

edit this is far from the final design.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/120/gutenprefs3.png

Re: USB (DOT4) Printers & OS4.1 **Testing in Progress**

Posted on: 2013/2/20 19:09 #239

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YESYESYESYESYESYES WHERE ARE MY DANCING 'NANAS?

I've just successfully printed something on my Dot4 printer under OS4!

I'll see if I can rework it into a standalone "dot4print" command for people to test (this will at least give the ability to use printtofile.device and then copy the output to the printer)

After that I will evaluate the possibility of making it into a dot4.device.

As the old saying goes, if you want something doing...

Sorry, I'm somewhat shocked after my printer fired up. I saw several hours' worth of error messages yesterday, changed a 1 to a 0 today, and it started working.