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Plod
 Post subject: RiscCad and Plotters
PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:31 pm 
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I am running RisCad on VA and would like to connect up my Camm 1 pnc 1000. On the A7000+ I was using it ran on the parallel port. I don't have a parallel port on my PC. Does anyone know how I can drive the Camm1 from VA?
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Aaron
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I assume that you have both RISC OS and Windows drivers for this device. If so then it might work with a USB to Parallel adapter cable.
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There is a driver with the RiscOS software but I have no windows driver.
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Do you still have the A7000 ?
It could still work as a networked printer server.

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Aaron
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You could use the A7000 as a printer sever, but this might not be convenient. Ideally you will need to find a driver for this machine that works with your version of Windows (XP I presume).
If you are running Vista then I would imagine that you will have no luck and Sandgrounders suggestion would be the way to go.
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I am using Vista. How would the printserver work?
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Aaron
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Well you will need the have the machine networked and will need a system that supports printer sharing. As an example article:
http://www.riscos.org/networking/samba.html
Note that I've never done this sort of thing myself so I can't offer a great deal of assistance.
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