Generic Printer Driver

[MarvinR]

Under Window 2000/XP there are a driver for "Generic Printer" but I cannot find the same thing in Window Me, someone can tell me how to find one ?

 

[KimLeece]

There is a Generic driver in ME. Go to settings>printers>add printer - under the manufacturers list there is a Generic - the list is in alphabetical order so Generic comes with th G's!!

Kim.

'Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.'
Will Rogers.

 

[MarvinR]

I cannot find this in my ME, I use traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese ME.

Anywhere I can download the driver ?

 

[KimLeece]

I didn't use it but you can try this link:

http://www.printerdriver.biz/PDWin9x.htm

I'm not sure if it will work with a Chinese version of ME.

Kim.

'Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.'
Will Rogers.

 

[MarvinR]

Thanks Kim, I tried that site but this is not really the thing I am looking for.

Actually my situation is:

In a LAN composed by a WIN2000 server and some ME, I want the dot-matrix printer prints with its own font, as if old style printer does. So I use "Generic Text Only" printer driver for a Epson LQ-1050.

The problem is it's OK printing from Win2000, but from ME (using the "Generic" printer driver from Win2000 printer server) the printout goes into rubbish.

I use Notepad in Win2000 and ME for testing.

Any idea ?

 

[KimLeece]

Are you trying to print normal alphabetic fonts - or are you trying to print Chinese Kanji? I use an English ME with Japanese Language support enabled and print over a Japanese Windows 2000 server. I can print in alphabet characters from the English laptop with no problems - but if I have Japanese charachters in the text then I end up with little boxes or dots instead of the Japanese charachters. The only solution that I have found is to move the document I want to print to the server and open it on the server to print it out (actually I don't have to move the file - I can just open it from the server) I realise that this is awkward but I haven't found any other solution. The problem I discovered is that the two fonts that come with the Japanese language support (MSMincho & MSGothic) are only screen fonts on the ME machine and so a print out from this machine cannot find the correct font to use. As soon as the document is opened in a fully Japanese system (where the printer font also exists) there is no problem. The fonts have a TTF extention in English ME - and a TTC extention on the Japanese server. I have a feeling that your problem might be somewhat related - i.e. maybe not a printer driver problem - but a fonts problem. Are you sure that the ME machines have the correct System fonts installed? Generic printing won't use TTF fonts as far as I know so you would need the correct generic text fonts installed on all the machines.
As I don't know an absolute 'right' fix the above might give some clues as to what could be happening.

Kim.

'Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.'
Will Rogers.

 

[MarvinR]

Since the beginning I used only English letters in Notepad to test the printer, the 2000 server and Win Me are both "freshly" installed and without any speical language software in it, that's what annoy me the most.

Maybe I have to test more on different machine.

Anyway think you for your kindness