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With PipeDream, you can create documents containing highlight codes that specify particular type styles and effects, such as bold and underlined text, superscripts and subscripts, and alternative fonts. Because different printers use different techniques to achieve these effects, the Cambridge Z88 uses a printer driver to convert the standard PipeDream highlights to each particular printer's codes. The printer driver can then be altered to suit a particular printer's facilities. The Cambridge Z88 comes with a built-in driver, which interfaces with the widely-used Epson series of dot-matrix printers, or other printers compatible with this. |
With PipeDream, you can create documents containing highlight codes that specify particular type styles and effects, such as bold and underlined text, superscripts and subscripts, and alternative fonts. Because different printers use different techniques to achieve these effects, the Cambridge Z88 uses a printer driver to convert the standard PipeDream highlights to each particular printer's codes. The printer driver can then be altered to suit a particular printer's facilities.
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The name of the current driver definition, initially Epson,is displayed on the Printer Editor screen and is shown for the PrinterEd activity in the Index YOUR REF. column.
| File Load |
Allows a driver definition to be loaded into the Printer Editor. Gives the prompt:
Note that the driver definition is not actually installed until the Update Driver command is given. | |
| File Save |
| Saves the current driver definition with a specified name. | |
| File Name |
| Sets the name of the current driver definition. | |
| File New |
| Resets the driver definition in the Printer Editor to the options for the default Epson driver, and resets the driver used for printing to this driver. | |
| File UpdateDriver |
| Creates a printer driver from the definition currently in the Printer Editor, and installs it for use in subsequent printing. |
Creating a new printer driver or changing an existing one
The Cambridge Z88 PrinterEd application allows you to create your own printer driver definition, editing the options used by the built-in driver to add your own special printing effects to your documents.
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An extended ISO translation table has been provided as well, selected using the ISO command. This gives 14 more single-character substitutions which are additional to the number above.
Adding the £ translation character
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Are you getting ]eMq,M5M=6MBMy]a7I in-between the £ symbol and the numbers? This is because the previous default translation characters that were provided In OZ 2.2 and 3.0 UK, the £ translation characters have been removed. Put them back in this section if required. |
For example, the default Epson driver uses the following sequence to print a '£' sign, assuming it is set up to use the USA character set:
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