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Skriven 2006-06-18 10:24:06 av Herbert Rosenau (2:2476/493)
    Kommentar till text 158 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.10)
Ärende: Speeding Up OS/2 on a Slow PC
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Am 18.06.06 09:27 schrieb Peter Knapper

 PK> Hi Herbert,

 HR>> So, as I use now OO 1.1.5 (2.0 is far from GA yet) I can
 HR>> communicate again with dumb users without paying M$ for its crap.

 PK> SO has handled my needs to date as I am not too demanding in that
 PK> area, just Word and Excel "rough" compatibility (EG import/export

Sice WXP it is definitevely not enough. The people I have to communicate with
are dumb XP users, so the send exel XP sheets, M$ Word XP documents and
requires that I can not only read but modify them. SO was at least unable to
handle SO created compund templates well when they were used as SO documents.
It was hard to correct bills while they were created.

 PK> Excel as CSV, import/export Word as MS Word97) is all thats
 PK> needed by me (so far). It even handles my Digital Camera images
 PK> ok (after PMVIEW Pro touch-ups) for multi-photo page layout and
 PK> printing, so my needs are fairly basic.

When you gets native Exel XP sheets and you have to correct them and email them
back you're loose with SO5.1 completely.

 HR>> I use OO for - writing letters - writing bills to my customers -
 HR>> doing my accounting for my small enterprise

 HR>> As OpenOffice is better integrated into WPS as SO was I feel
 HR>> better with it. I don't use the standard templates but have
 HR>> created my own.

 HR>> I like the postscript capabilities, the possibilities to to im-
 HR>> and export CVS.

 PK> What sort of printer do you use and what type of connection do it
 PK> have? Do you do direct to printer in PS mode? I am currently
 PK> using an older Epson Photo Stylus 720, and was surprised at how
 PK> good the Photo's print on that using SO, but its still on a
 PK> Parallel connection as I can't get it to work under USB (eCS can
 PK> see it, identify it correctly and report its Firmware version
 PK> etc, but actual printing just vanishes without a dot printed).

I use 2 different printers on 2 different locations:
1. Minolta QMS DeskLaser 2200 (windows GDI Postscript) printer
   Yes, such ill things exists really!
   I print on it through network using an OS/2 postscript printer
   redirecting the output to an LAN directory on the W2K mashine
   and there 2 REGINA REXX procedures to send them into the windows
   QMS postscript driver. It is hard to have a windows running only
   to have a printer printing - but the only solution to use that beast.

2. HP 2550N connected to parallel port, using the IBM postscript 
   printer driver. On the second mashine I use the peer capabilities
   to print on in.

I gave up using ink printers because the cost of 160Õ/month for ink
(black + color) the Lexmark and thereafter the Epson printer required only to
have 1 - 50 pages printed in a week was too high. I don't like to exchange the
ink cartridges before each time I was able to produce a short set of pages.

Do yourself a favor and buy a color laser like the HP 2550. You'll forget it
for any cost, exept cheap copying paper for for about 5,000 pages until you
needs frech toner. True, the initial costs (about 500 Õ) are not comperable
with a cheap ink printer - but the time and the money you saves thereafter is
the investment worth. The HP 2550N comes with parallel port, USB connector and
a network print server on board. As the DSL router I got for free from my ISP
owns ony 2 ethernet connectors and both are blocked by PCs I can't use the on
board printserver already. 

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