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How do the new printer device selection options work in Printer Prefs, and what is the “unit name”?

April 26, 2017device Options prefs printer selection

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How do the new printer device selection options work in Printer Prefs, and what is the “unit name”?

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• Select a different unit (via “Printer Device Unit” cycle-gadget). • Choose the Printer Type (which is actually the printer driver–don’t know why they called it Printer Type) and select “Parallel” from the “Printer Port” cycle-gadget (make sure “Use custom device” is unchecked). You’re done. Note that this does have a drawback in that the Amiga printer.device doesn’t know the “Standard printer” like Microsoft Windows does, so you’ll only be able to print to the first printer unit (#0) as long as the program that sends the print-job doesn’t support the new printer.device. You can give each printer.device unit (0 to 9) a name. Programs that support the printer.device v44 will show you this name (unit name) in their “print document” dialog.