Could one of the programmers write a Windows 2000 driver for the Samsung SL-600G?
Please let me know asap.

eharris8@hotmail.com

I'm sure there are no less than a dozen or so programmers sitting around with nothing to do so perhaps one of them can help you out. If I were you, I'd do some reading on programming/writing device drivers. The power of common search engines yield a wealth of information. Perhaps in 2-3 years you can write your own driver... who knows, you might even get somebody to do it free for you... but I wouldn't count on it happening in the next 24 hours. :)

Could one of the programmers write a Windows 2000 driver for the Samsung SL-600G?
Please let me know asap.

eharris8@hotmail.com


Early printers usually EMULATED the HP Laserjet I or Laserjet II series from HP.

try the HP II series driver then if nessary the I, and if that fails simply use the GENERIC windows printer driver. (generic will work but has no advanced features. text only)

Note that the above will only work if the printer has a full controller board. some printers offloaded the rasterizing functions onto the computer's cpu and have brain dead controllers. this can be determined by simply seeing if DOS or windows 3.1 drivers exist for your model printer. if so then you have a full controller board.

I have Samsung SL-600G printer and I don't think that anyone would write driver for NT platform, because:
1. Printer is software based and driver do almost all job on computer after send it to printer.
2. Driver (program) uses direct access to parallel port which NT based platform don't like so they freeze, block or restart. I know from experience, when I wrote program for my IC Tester device attached to parallel port. It works fine under Linux, Minix, DOS and Windows 3.1x/9x/ME but it kills Windows NT/2K/XP :)
3. Last driver from Samsung was for Windows 3.1x and because of point 2 you can run it on Windows 9x/Me but not on Windows NT/2K/XP.
4. If someone wants to write new driver for NT platform they must get source of current driver (or use reverse engineering – disassembling etc.) to see how it communicates with printer and what it actually do.
5. After point 4 was success then that software must be adapted to work with "safety" functions for LPT port on NT platform. For me, writing LPT driver on NT platform is much worse than USB driver, therefore I newer wrote LPT driver for my IC Tester device.
Anyway, writing NT platform driver for this printer will cost much more than your computer and printer worth together. Besides this is obsolete technology declared from manufacturer side and there are no detailed technical information.
Best solution: buy another printer supported for all platforms.