Re: [SLUG] Canon Printers

["Aussie" <aussie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 8 Jul 00, at 1:35, Steve Kowalik wrote:

> Aussie,
>  Plain text support removed from Canon printers!? What weeds have
> you been smoking? Or getting information from? The main job of a printer
> is handle text/stuff dumped onto it...if it can't print plain text, and
> needs a Windows driver to encode it, then Canon can go and get knotted...
> (bad day today)

  That's EXACTLY what I told the guy at Canon when he told me that the don't 
handle plain text anymore. The only way printers can produce text is to encode 
it internally from the plain-text received from the port. Canon has decided 
that this costs too much and they can save about $5 a printer by not including 
inbuilt translation from plaintext to printed characters.
  I have personally tested a couple of the Canon printers (BJC2000, BJC265SP 
and BJC5100) and I can verify that plaintext is NOT printed by the printer at 
all.
  While the manuals appear to indicate that the printers will handle MS-DOS, 
this is merely the spooling of those print jobs, the plain text output is sent 
to the printer which then is unable to print it.
  I have indicated to Canon that I will no longer by recommending their 
printers to any customers, as my customers require printers that are able to 
handle plaintext.
  If anyone knows which HP printers still support plaintext or if any of the 
cheaper Epson's support plaintext, please let me know.

Aussie


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