Re: Millennium Silver: Printer Settings prompt

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Peter W. Caton wrote:

> We just upgraded to Millennium Silver.
>
> One thing we noticed is that when ever we go to print now, a "Printer
> Settings" dialogue box appears.
>
> While this isn't particularly annoying, I am wondering why Innovative
> added this feature?  Is this pop-up box to facilitate printing in a
> "Windows world?"

In a word, yes. In prior versions of Millennium, and the versions of Java
they were based on, printing was done at a "port" or "raw" level, not
using the printer driver. In Silver, they use a Java that offers the
possibility of using the driver. When Silver is set for "graphics mode",
it uses the driver, and presents the printer setup options. This allows
you to specify bins, paper sizes, etc. "Text mode" still doesn't use the
driver.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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