Printing USB on 0S4.1, Pagestream, AmiGS...

Hi everybody,

I created a new topic because my question concerns two recent topics : USB printing on OS4 and Pagestream on OS 4.1.

Let's begin by my remarks to these topics' authors.

Yes you can use on a daily basis Pagestream 68k. Mine is 4.0.9 and runs very well. A native PGS would be fantastic though.

I have a Magicolor 2550 from Konica Minolta. It is a color laser printer and woaah it is better than my old epson stylus 600.
I used my laser printer on my died A1 with a parallel cable, postscript driver and par: device. No problem.

I have just connected it on my Sam FLex 800.
I must tell that I was very surprised. It has been recognised and worked very well in text mode and graphics mode.

BUT I have a question about USB printers and OS4 device.

I configured my printer as a postscript one and choose usbprinter.device.
But if it exists, whqt is the "assign name" of printing as PAR: for parallel device.
Without it, the only way for me to print from PGS is to redirect to a ps file.
To print from AMiGS, I choosed workench printer in place of postscript printer (better for me).

Voil?, I hope that my question is not too complicated.

@yescop

Copy the PAR mountlist and edit it so device is usbprinter.device instead of parallel.device. Obviously give it a different name (USBPRT or something).

Hi @Chris

Thanks for your answer. It worked.
I tried to rename the dosdriver device to usbprt. It could be mounted but was not useable after (USBPRT unknown...).
I decided to choose the PAR name and it worked very well.

I could have imagined this solution a few months ago, I lost the amiga spirit a bit since my A1 died.

Best regards,
Jes?s

@yescop

Nice you got it working.

@Antique
HI,

thanks four message.
It is my turn to be...bad :(

Have you droped the evolution of ctorrent ?
...
Bad boy, now I have retrieved my OS4, ctorrent would be nice.
If you need encouragements or motivation (it is not always easy to have it, I know it), I am here :) :) :) :) :) :beer:

@yescop

Hehe.
No,i have not stopped it,but have been busy with other things. And waiting for a new version to be released really. Did try to fix the big file size but without luck. But the v2.0 seems to work very good,atleast here. And haven't got any bug complaints as far as i can remember.