Trying to print to a Windows printer

m7hacke · Post by **m7hacke** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:47 am

I'm trying to print to my Windows printer (Epson Stylus Color 740) from BASIC. I changed the printer setting for device 4 to "Normal" instead of writing to the text file. I have been typing the following:

OPEN 3,4
PRINT#3,"PRINT SOMETHING"
CLOSE 3

Nothing happens. Is this even possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Post by **Stuart Toomer** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:02 pm

You can't print to a PC printer from within any C64 emulator! They use completely different technologies/character-sets/etc. If you want to save a text file of a BASIC listing, please refer to:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stuart.too ... _H_004.htm

m7hacke · Post by **m7hacke** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:57 pm

Thank you very much for your help.

K.C. · Post by **K.C.** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:41 pm

Stuart Toomer wrote:You can't print to a PC printer from within any C64 emulator! They use completely different technologies/character-sets/etc.

If that is true, you can't emulate a C64 on an Intel based PC. The MOS 6502 and Intel x86 processors use completely different technologies, so CCS64 can't exist!

CCS64 hasn't support for printing grpaihcs to Windows printers. It would be a nice feature for a future release.
You can print graphics with WinVICE. WinVICE can emulate a Commodore MPS803 and a Star NL10. When you print something from the emulator and have selected the correct printer, VICE will make a bitmap file from it that you can print on a modern printer.

Post by **Stuart Toomer** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:22 pm

I naturally meant direct communication from an emulator to a Windows printer. VICE does have the VICE2PS Utility, which converts VICE Prints to Post-Script format files.