FMC Printer

[nobody]

It would be nice to link the PSX printer to a real world printer, so when hitting PRINT on the FMC you get a real peace of paper instead of the virtual one. Isn´t that a nice idea for the next update?

[JP59]

Hello,

If you have good luck, Adapt PSX is doing the job you ask. In my case and some other people here, it isn't working. It will be a good idea to add the functionality direct into PSX. +1 !

[Hardy Heinlin]

That's not on my plan. Sorry!

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Printer support still is very platform-dependent. A Java program that really supports Windows, Linux, and Mac printers would be quite a thing. Remember that my ACARS never really supported a printer... and that was just on Windows. That was for a reason...


Hoppie

[nobody]

OK, so it is a Java issue... still, it would be a neat Feature :-)

[Pierre Theillere]

Hi nobody and Hoppie!

Yep, that printing issue is one of the 2 reasons why my flight deck will (forever) need a Windows system:
- my (serial) ticketing printer only has drivers for Windows.
- my (serial) Safeline jet console only has Windows keyboard emulating software.
On old computer under Windows XP handles all those fully fine...
For now, I sometimes also use another Windows PC for handling X-Plane visuals... but it will be replaced by a Mac OSX computer, as soon as XView get ported there. Mike (aka "mikeindevon") is working hard for that!

[JP59]

Salut Pierre,

Do you use a Windows computer for printing with Adapt PSX ? What version of windows is it ? You only use serial printers ? Never try USB printers with Adapt ? I cannot make it working neither with 7 nor Vista. Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

[Pierre Theillere]

Hi Jean-Philippe,

The computer running AdaptPSX is under Windows XP SP3, and I use a "USB to serial" adapter, as the computer doesn't have any serial port. There's a driver for that adapter, that creates a virtual COM port.
Yep, it's the only printer I have (I got it more than 10 years ago, specially for ACARS... but in fact I didn't really use it with the good old PS13) and at that time it only existed in serial port. It's a TM88-II (something like that, I'm not at home) from EPSON, that "prints" (on paper rolls) using a heating process, like the cash printers at the supermarket: it's super-fast, and even able to cut the paper at the end of the page automagically, but with AdaptPSX I have to tear it off manually.
Of course, I have to install a driver for that printer, so that it's handled fully fine by Windows, and enables the printer to appear into VisualPSx' dropdown printer selection list.

[JP59]

Thanks for the informations Pierre. I'll give it a try with an XP computer. Maybe Adapt PSX doesn't like 7 or Vista...

[Hessel Oosten]

Is it worth a trial, to run AdaptPSX in WIN XP compatibility mode ?

H.

[JP59]

I tried yesterday with an XP computer, still not printing.