Title: LAZYPRINT Author: Kate Crennell Version: 2.38 Title From: Documentation Author From: Documentation Version From: Documentation Supplier: Kate Crennell Date: 08/03/97 Keywords: Printing utilities Shareware: Yes Machine: Archimedes Operating system: RISCOS Memory requirements: 128 kbytes Peripherals needed: HP (or emulated PCL) printer Other s/ware needed: Directory: micros/arch/riscos/f008 Date mounted/updated: 17/04/97 File names: lazyprint.arc Unarchived files: 23 Unarchived size: 139 kbytes Omissions: See also: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquiring the package: Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help" file in micros/arch/riscos/tools for further info). Description: !LazyPrint sends simple text, Draw or Sprite files to a Hewlett Packard printer. This allows easy selection of printer parameters such as paper orientation, margin sizes and hardware fonts for text printing jobs such as program listings, simple letters and address labels. Draw and Sprite files can also be printed at any magnification and position on the page in colour or black-and-white. It does this using HP languages (PCL-5 including HP-GL/2) within the printer to form the characters, draw the lines etc. and so is much faster than the Acorn or Computer Concepts printer-drivers which send the information as bit-maps. Sprites are sent as bit-maps for which LazyPrint is no faster than printer drivers. Unlike printer drivers, LazyPrint is truly multi-tasking, always allowing the computer to work on other tasks while it is printing. !LazyPrint is written in Fortran.