Re: Re: HL 2040 printer And Amiga Pagestream

admfubar wrote:

...snip....
> Dan,
> I checked the Brother website, to look for a user
manual or spec 
> sheet.
>  Found a manual that states this printer is a GDI type.
This might 
> not be able to work with an amiga. :( 
> Anyone will a GDI based print work with Turboprint?
(Might be best to 
> ask the Turboprint people about this).
>
> The 2040n model (which is not what you have, I
think??!) has PCL6, 
> HP, Epson, and Proprinter emulation modes.
>
>   

I cannot find 2040N printer on their website, just a 2040 or
a 2070N.
Only the N states that it has PCL(6) on board.
PCL is the rival of PostScript (according to Wikipedia), so
not 
interchangeable.

So, I think you got the wrong printer for your Amiga. Or
Turboprint must 
have a driver (not on their website!).

A better bet, in Europe, is the 5240, which has PostScript 3
- PS3 - 
(about € 200,-, almost twice of what you might have paid for
the 2040).
If you look for a printer look at the ones which can work
with Apple and 
Linux. The chance is that you can get it working with the
Amiga.

Theo


 
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Theo:

> ...PCL is the rival of PostScript (according to
Wikipedia), so not 
> interchangeable.
>   

I'm not really up on the topic, but if Wikipedia is
describing PCL as a 
"rival" of PostScript, they should choose a better
word or clarify 
themselves. Historically, the two were rivals only in the
sense that 
they were rivals in /quality/ in the printers that supported
them back 
when computer printers were moving from the 9-pin, dot
matrix era where 
you got only the fonts built into the printer to the present
era of true 
translation of what you get on the screen to the printed
page.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but PCL is a
Hewlett/Packard protocol 
used within their printers but popular enough to be included
as an 
option in other brands as well. As far as I know, it's never
been 
promoted as an independent tool for formatting documents.
With 
PostScript you have an intermediate file which you can open
in an editor 
and see that it's a page description language which can be
modified 
directly—at least you might want to modify the header
information. To 
the best of my knowledge, you can't do that in PCL. PCL is
always in the 
printer directly or by emulation and there's no intermediate
file to 
deal with. Many printers have it, although I doubt that most
of the 
cheap ones would these days. It could be useful if you don't
have the 
right printer driver for your particular printer.
"Interchangeable" 
isn't really quite the right word to describe the
relationship since 
there was never any attempt to promote PCL in that way.

HB


 
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