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Re: Turboprint Posted on 20-Jul-2011 13:01:37
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| Interesting Thread.
I use Turboprint and the 68k utility Spooler from Aminet to print via Samba to an Hp Office Jet Pro K550 attached to a Windows XP machine. the setup works quite well printing postscript from TurboCalc and I can get the margins right.
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 25-Jul-2011 11:26:17
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I got my HP Photosmart printer today and now have it working via network using netprinter.device and HP_Photosmart printer driver.
Ironically it was easier to set up and get running on the Amiga than my Mac! |
I have since found out how to access printer via OWB by putting in the IP address of the printer, and can now directly scan and save images on my Amiga.
So I now have a modern printer and fully functioning scanner with no other software required!
Oh happy days, who needs Windows or Mac OSX? _________________ SAM 460 with 2GB or RAM, 1000GB HD, 4 port SATA, DVDRW drive and Radeon HD 4650 GFX card. |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 25-Jul-2011 15:33:35
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Can you write a detailed description for us? _________________ Amiga600/Vampire2/PrismaMegaMix |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 25-Jul-2011 19:53:06
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Can you write a detailed description for us? |
I needed a new printer that would work on my new SAM460 as well as my Apple MacbookPro, after looking around and asking a few questions decided to get this one http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hp-photosmart-e-all-in-one-wireless-multifunction-printer-07374406-pdt.html from Currys, on that page you can see all the specs of the printer.
It is a HP Photosmart B110 all in one wireless printer that can scan, copy and print.
I installed a printer driver available at OS4 Depot http://www.os4depot.net/share/driver/printer/hp_photosmart.lha
Then downloaded netprinter.device http://aminet.net/comm/tcp/NetPrinter.lha and installed it.
Go to printer prefs and select HP_Photosmart as printer driver, then select netprinter.device in Port device, somewhere I had to enter the printer IP address, but wherever when you are prompted just enter it.
If I now enter printer IP address in OWB I can see printer controls and able to monitor ink levels and scan images and save to my Amiga. It's without doubt the best printer I have had attached to an Amiga, very useful indeed to be able to print and scan all without the need of any extra software.
I am a happy little bunny now, returned to the Amiga a little while ago and everything seems so good, computing on the Amiga is just so much fun
Update: \I have now purchased Turboprint http://www.zedonet.de/eshop-tpamiga.html just in case that driver supports the printer better with regard to DPI, and also to support Amiga software companies!
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 25-Jul-2011 23:14:06
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by gerograph on 20-Jul-2011 3:30:15 @Dandy I contacted Irsee Soft already, they donnot have contact to TP author anymore. They will not release it as Opensource, neither have support for it... However, wondering who is in charge of the MorphOS port |
I was going to post earlier in the thread about this but I have to now :)
Irsee soft was paid a license fee by Genesi to have Turbo print included with Morphos. AFAIK it was a one time fee for permanent usage. Later we tried to re-engage the idea of having Irsee soft port their later work to morphos but it was very expensive (read thousands) and they were far to busy on other more "serious" platforms. There are some morph guys that somehow used the more modern printer drivers from Turbo Print Linux version somehow, search MZ about this.
The best bet it seems for us is the network printer driver stuff and Postscript support. A comprehensive list of what users have working would be great. |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 28-Jul-2011 7:30:17
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Have now got Turboprint installed and it's all working well, decent quality graphics printing now!
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 17-Oct-2012 14:36:11
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What I did find a problem was when printing plain text then TurboPrint would lock up the A1, it would print the text but I always had to reboot the Amiga after doing so. |
I seem to have the same problem with Turboprint. It locks up my A1 solid - requires a hard reset - if I print from Notepad. I installed it first on my OS3.1 partition and then copied everything over, setting the turboprint assign in user-startup.
Which version of Turboprint are you using?
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 10:55:11
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... Oh, btw.: You cant use the scanner option with AmigaOS. There is absolutely no support for this.
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I assume you're referring to OS4.x here?
As under OS 3.9 I have brilliant scanner support with ScanQuix5 & FxScan. The latter even allows to generate .pdf-documents, as well as doing OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I'd really like to know if ScanQuix5 & FxScan would work with OS 4.x (emulated?), given I could find a way to connect my Epson GT 6500 flatbed SCSI scanner to the A1 X1k, once I got it... _________________ Ciao
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 11:29:37
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@whose Any Idea, if there is a TurboPrint Driver, which supports PCL6 with upto 600dpi ?
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No idea what PCL6 is, but my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer is supported in TurboPrint up to a resolution of 1440 x 720 dpi..._________________ Ciao
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 11:49:06
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and a friend of mine used it successfully with a D5460 |
And i managed to print photos with full dpi resolution, but then it take ages to print but the result is much better when printing from sd-card in the printer-interface itself.
But i cant print PDF with amipdf.
The Photosmart-Driver from the OS4-Depot don´t reach the full DPI-Resolution (Above 600x600 dpi) and have no Color-Correction (too dark printouts)_________________ I´m back in 2023 on Classic Amiga with my A1200/Blizzard1230IB@50Mhz, 32MB RAM, AmigaOS3.2 and ROMs, Indivision AGA MK3, Author of Amiga-Flipclock (OS4) |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 14:21:14
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I seem to have the same problem with Turboprint. It locks up my A1 solid - requires a hard reset - if I print from Notepad. I installed it first on my OS3.1 partition and then copied everything over, setting the turboprint assign in user-startup.
Which version of Turboprint are you using? Scott |
I am not anymore I got an HP Photosmart 6510e and now use the Photosmart driver from OS4 Depot. I do not think TP has drivers new enough for this printer.
I am not sure of the version of TP I used, I would need to fire up the XE, but it would have been the latest that was available. I have not installed TP on the X1000 as had the HP printer by then.
I remember one of the Devs was looking at what may be the cause but I never followed it up having changed printer and would not have been able to test any results. So I am not sure if there was a fix or not. |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 14:23:33
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The Photosmart-Driver from the OS4-Depot don´t reach the full DPI-Resolution (Above 600x600 dpi) and have no Color-Correction (too dark printouts) |
I don't think you can increase the resolution but you can alter the darkness of the output using the "Threshold" setting in the printer prefs, which in the Photosmart driver apparently changes the gamma correction. |
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 15:40:23
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| @fingus have you tried with AmiGS? It has lower quality than AmiPDF, but printing via turboprint generally works, with AmiPDF I generally get 100% CPU and no printing.
@Dandy, I never tried ScanQuix5 or FxScan, but ImageFX work very well with my SCSI GT-7000, on my AONE-XE with a SCSI card
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Re: Turboprint Posted on 15-Nov-2012 16:30:00
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... Oh, btw.: You cant use the scanner option with AmigaOS. There is absolutely no support for this.
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I assume you're referring to OS4.x here?
As under OS 3.9 I have brilliant scanner support with ScanQuix5 & FxScan. The latter even allows to generate .pdf-documents, as well as doing OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I'd really like to know if ScanQuix5 & FxScan would work with OS 4.x (emulated?), given I could find a way to connect my Epson GT 6500 flatbed SCSI scanner to the A1 X1k, once I got it... |
All I can say, it works here. Without problems. I am using TurboPrint 5.5 and ScanQuix 5.1 with an Amtrade AM12 flatbed scanner and an Epson Stylus Coror Printer on the AmigaOne-XE. I just recently had a look, the printer is manufactured in 1999 and I'm really happy it works flawlessly, Infact it is my only printer here atm.
Anyway, I can scan to disk and then print, or scan to printer directly.Everything works. Since update 5 I can print images from Multiview too, I remember on Upd 3 or Upd2 something was not working correctly.
I don't use FXScan. But IIRC there is the older v 1.0 or 1.5, on my ScanQuix CD, can't remember. |
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