ALPS MD-1000 Windows XP Work Around
Kerry Carlyle
Alp MD-1000 Printers, I'm not a railway modeler, but I'm frustrated by
a lack of a printer driver for XP. I stumbled apon a solution -
1. Install the MD-1300 Driver for XP/2000
2. From corel Draw select Print To file, select Rasterize entire page
(not sure if its actually needed), set to 600 DPI
3. Select print to file
4. Print drawing to a file, save somewhere easy for you to remeber
5. Dump the file to the printer directly from the Command Prompt.
eg: copy /b graphic1.prn prn:
I know this is a but of a pain, but the up side is that you save your
seperations, and print them all at once.
if you user spot colors for Gold/White/Silver you can do something
like this:
copy /b Main.prn+Gold.prn+Silver.prn prn:
Cheers
Kerry
Christian
> Alp MD-1000 Printers, I'm not a railway modeler, but I'm frustrated by
> a lack of a printer driver for XP.
One; contact AlpsUSA and have them send the MD-1000 2k/XP driver on CD.
Two; join the Alps Decal group on Yahoo and download the 2k/XP driver from
the file area.
CTucker
NY
Fritz Milhaupt
...and if you get the same results I did, wonder why all the text on the
driver screens comes up as unreadable graphics characters.
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Daniel Tavares
Fritz Milhaupt wrote:
>...and if you get the same results I did, wonder why all the text on the
>driver screens comes up as unreadable graphics characters.
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>
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Did you remove the old drivers first? Unreadable graphics characters
signifies an incorrect driver as you probably know. If you have another
printer connected there's also the possibility that you haven't told
your computer you wanted to print with the Alps. (Don't ask me how I
know this.)
Dan T