First post, by depac_402
I've been making good use of the Virtual Printer in ykhwong's version of DosBox 0.70 on XP. My understanding is it can only print in black and white. The program I use (data analysis) can output colour graphs when operating in DOS on an older machine via LPT1. Is there any way I can print in colour with DosBox/XP to a USB printer? I tried using DOSPRINTER to capture output to LPT1 and send it to my USB printer but no joy. I've tried saving Virtual Printer output as 'ps', 'bmp' & 'png' files and also straight to USB printer - they all work perfectly BUT in black and white only.
I appreciate DosBox is primarily aimed at gamers and printing isn't a priority for most users so apologies to the DosBox originators for making this request but I'm hoping someone might have a solution/suggestion/recommendation etc. Is anyone out there managing to print in colour? Thanks in advance for any help. BTW, for anyone looking to print from DosBox in black and white, I highly recommend ykhwong's build - a really neat piece of work!
Forgot to mention........ screen capture doesn't work too well in this instance as the graph is diplayed on screen with a black background. When selecting print option, the program must re-render the graph: the data is automatically rescaled and displayed in an easier to read form (with white background). I've tried screen capture and manipulating the image in various ways but results still don't look anything as good as the program's 'real' print output.