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Star Micronics Gemini 10 Win98 driver

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Scott Stewart

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May 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/23/99
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I realize this is a really old printer, and I would probably be better
off just buying a decent one, but what the heck-I own it, and if I can
get it to work as a secondary printer, it just might save me some
dough.

Anybody know where I can get a win 98 driver for this printer? I can
probably use the generic driver, but it would be nice to have the
whole nine yards. I wrote to Star Micronics and they said "Fat
chance" of course, not in so many words. What do you all say?

Bk St Crawler

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May 23, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/23/99
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Try here http://www.star-micronics.co.jp/index_e.htm you might have some
luck.

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Scott Stewart

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May 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/25/99
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No luck. No Gemini printers were in the driver update section.

How hard is it to write these things? How does one go about trying to
learn how?

Scott

John Troxell

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May 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/25/99
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If you have an IBM Proprinter driver, try that. Friend of mine uses that
w a Gem 10 under W31.

John T


Apachejct

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May 25, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/25/99
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In article <3749dd2c...@news.netmcr.com>, ssst...@nospamnetmcr.com
(Scott Stewart) writes:

> realize this is a really old printer, and I would probably be better
>>> off just buying a decent one, but what the heck-I own it, and if I can
>>> get it to work as a secondary printer, it just might save me some
>>> dough.

I have been also looking for a driver to use with the Star 10x and the Epson
MX-80 but have never found one that will work with Win 95. The 9 pin "generic"
drivers will not work either. I am told that the 16 bit drivers for Win 3.X
will not work with Win95 and that you must have 32 bit drivers, which
apperently don't exist. I have been looking on and off for two years now with
no luck. I hope you have more success than I did. I still keep them around just
to print from DOS. Guess lots of the new printers will not do that!

Jack

Scott Stewart

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May 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/30/99
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I tried a proprinter driver today and it didn't work. The generic
printer driver leaves letters out intermittently. Is there a place to
slow down the LPT 1 transmission rate in the control panel somewhere?
Or is that not the problem.

Anybody know how to write a driver? I still have the book, and have
all the software specs.

Lance Edmonds

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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In order to use Proprinter, you have to put the STAR printer into IBM
mode. I've got an SG10 here, and thats how I run it fine (Win3.1,
3.11, Win95, etc)

--Lance

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