Re: Writing a Printer Driver

rac <rcn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Has anyone here written a custom printer driver?
If so please can you post the details of how you did it?

There are so many different ways to drive a printer that it can become
very specific to the OS, the application, and the printer.

I am having problems with finding a driver. The printer company has
published a driver development kit and it looks like i will have to go
down this route. At least i will really *know* what a printer driver is!!

but i would like to hear from someone who has succeeded in this. Is there
a specific place to start? I'm into C++ if that helps any..

For the Lexmark Z600 driver mentioned earlier, best for the everyone
would be to write your own rastertoz600 code. Then you can use
Ghostscript or anything else to produce a bitmap. The "developers kit"
looks to only include .h files and libraries, so reverse-engineering how
rastertoz600 works might be required.

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
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