________________________________________________________________________ Larry Smith 1702 Jewel Drive Sarasota, FL 34240 Print Plus Version 1.1 1990 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Print Plus is a printer utility which allows you to continue to use your Amiga while printing IFF graphics. Print Plus will print in any resolution: LO, MED, HI, INTERLACE, and HAM. Print Plus will also print larger than screen size drawings. Print Plus is easy to use. Just double click on the disk icon and when the window opens double click on the PrintPlus icon. Single Drive Users: Print Plus can run with a single drive but be prepared to swap disks! After booting with Workbench or a program disk: Remove Workbench disk Insert Print Plus disk After inserting Print Plus and opening the program the Amiga system will bring up the disk requester window and ask you to insert either Workbench or Print Plus. Print Plus needs different Workbench files to run. The alternative is to make a copy of your Workbench disk and delete files you don't need and drag the Print Plus icon to that disk. Deleting all the files in the Utilities drawer EXCEPT Graphic Dump (Print Plus needs it) will free up enough disk space. Deleting other files to create space to save your IFF graphic files will eliminate disk swapping. Users with 2 Drives: Insert Workbench 1.3 in DF0: and Print Plus in your external drive. If you do not want to do any swapping, copy or save your graphic files onto a copy of Print Plus. Removing my Pics drawer and Doc file will give you about 740K of disk space. Users with 3 Drives: Insert your data disk into your 3rd drive. No need to swap! Hard Drive Users: Drag the Print Plus icon into any drawer on your hard drive. NO SWAPPING of DISKS! The Title Screen contains a hidden menu bar at the top of the screen which you can access by pressing the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. The menu bar has two menu items: Print... sends graphic data to your printer. (Right Amiga P) Once your printer STARTS to print your graphic you can return to Workbench (and use any other program) by pressing LEFT AMIGA N. After your printer STOPS you can return to Print Plus by clicking the Workbench front to back gadject or use LEFT AMIGA M. You can now clear the screen by using the menu Clear or by pressing RIGHT AMIGA C. Clear... removes the last drawing loaded to the screen and refreshes the Title Screen so you can load another graphic (Right Amiga C) The Title Screen also contains the following buttons: (Click Once with LEFT Mouse Button. About...Brings up information about Print Plus and displays the current: CHIP memory FREE memory TIME DATE Preferences...Allows you to access the Amiga Preferences to change your printer settings. If you haven't already, try experimenting with the different size settings in Graphics 2. You can get some fantastic results. Print Plus supports all Preference settings. Help... A brief description of Print Plus and a button labeled WB! that allows you access to Workbench from Print Plus. To return to Print Plus click the Workbench front to back gadject or use LEFT AMIGA M. Preview...Brings up a file requester from which you can access any Disk or Directory. Click on the file you wish to Load and click on OK to Load. To Print use menu or Right Amiga P. Quit....Quits Print Plus and returns to Workbench. **** I have included some LO res and HAM graphics on this disk for **** **** you to print out. A few will be viewed on the screen sideways **** **** as I wanted to print them with the vertical setting. **** _______________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT PLEASE READ "The author is not responsible for any loss of data or other damage that may result from use of this program. The author has gone to great lengths to make sure that this software is the best it can be but is a bit paranoid and so the above statement applies." PRINT PLUS IS NOT FREE! It is SHAREWARE! If you send me $20.00 (or More!) you will be a registered user and I will do the following: 1- HARD DRIVE USERS-- If you would check the amount of time it takes for your printer to START printing AFTER your drawing is displayed on the screen I will set your copy of Print Plus to automatically return to Workbench as soon as your printer starts printing. (I have my working copy return me to my programs in 2.5 seconds.) 2- For ALL registered users of Print Plus: I will send you a FREE copy of a text (printer/editor/reader) which will allow you to work on another document or use another program while printing. This will also entitle you to future revisions and/or upgrades of Print Plus. Also, once Workbench 2.0 becomes available I will make sure your copy will run under Workbench 2.0. I am also working on a CLImate type utility which will do the usual copy, delete, move etc.; but will also be able to: show animations, play sounds and much, much more. I am currently working on a commercial program to teach children the alphabet using graphics, animation, music and sound. There will be 5 different skill levels teaching letters, words and pronunciation using the mouse and the keyboard. This program will be available to registered users of Print Plus for half the retail price. Any money received for Print Plus will go towards the cost of packaging and documentation of this program. Thank you for looking at Print Plus. Hopefully you will send me money and if you do: ENJOY! printing graphics without tying up your AMIGA!!! I would like to THANK the following: David and Andrew from Computer's ETC. (The Best Computer Dealer Anywhere!) David for his humor and support and Andrew for his interest and a couple of suggestions which improved PrintPlus dramatically. Also many,many,many THANKS to my fellow SIG members for putting up with my oversized enthusiasm every Tuesday and Wednesday for the past year and a half: John Najjar, Larry McLeod, Dave King, Sara Roberts and Marjorie McPhilamy. SPREAD THE WORD NOT THE DISK ______________________ | | | Larry Smith | | 1702 Jewel Dr. | | Sarasota, FL 34240 | | 813-377-0269 | |______________________|