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How about a hack?
Authored by: Rob on Aug 17, '01 09:10:44PM

I print to an Epson Stylus 600 from my trusty old Newton 2000, using a generic Epson Stylus driver. Surely it must be possible to hack one of the existing Epson Stylus drivers for OS X to support the 600, at least in basic functions. Admittedly I haven't succeeded when I've tried this.

OS X recognises that the printer is a Stylus 600 (via a no-name USB-parallel converter) and says it's unsupported. Could it be as simple as changing a string in some table that OS X looks up to determine whether a printer is supported or not? I presume you'd also need to duplicate the driver for another printer and change its name and internal strings to 600.



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