VersaCheck Ultimate Series 2008 Forum

I've installed Versacheck 2010 and Quicken 2013 with Crossover on Linux but can't get the Versacheck printer to install. Both programs work fine but I can't integrate the two without the Versacheck printer. I've run the InstallPrinter.exe file with Crossover as root (in Linux) but no luck in creating the VCPT1 port for the printer. Any suggestions?

From the description on their site, they basically install a "faux" printer driver. I don't know of any instance where such a driver ever worked with wine or CrossOver. Usually people tried "print to pdf" type of things.

The way printing work with wine is that the system printer gets exposed by wine to the various programs. So, if you want to "print to pdf" you'd need to install a "faux" printer that prints to PDF (cups-pdf is such a driver that is available on both Linux and Mac OS X). The same sort of thing you'd do on Windows, actually.

So my point is that you'd probably need a CUPS compatible "faux" printer for VersaCheck which they do not seem to offer.

Richard Weiss wrote:

I've installed Versacheck 2010 and Quicken 2013 with Crossover on
Linux but can't get the Versacheck printer to install. Both programs
work fine but I can't integrate the two without the Versacheck
printer. I've run the InstallPrinter.exe file with Crossover as root
(in Linux) but no luck in creating the VCPT1 port for the printer.
Any suggestions?

Well, a few of things come to mind. Please understand, this is unsupported.

First, does your Versacheck printer work with native Linux applications? If not, that's a show stopper right there. No deal, do not pass go, do not collect the ability to print checks. The reason is, CrossOver relies on the native drivers to print/scan/make use of hardware on your system. If a native Linux application cannot print to it, CrossOver cannot print to it.

Second, if you're trying to use the two applications together, they would need be in the same bottle. Putting Quicken into a bottle with anything will be sketchy at best... so proceed with caution. Don't experiment on your Quicken bottle that is working. Make a new bottle and set everything up and make sure it all works.

Third, if you can't get your device recognized by Linux at first, there are means that you "could" do it. Some google action, a little hair pulling. I don't have a VersaCheck printer so I can't begin to point you in the right direction for anything that would work.

Final thought... if you have Windows, you may find better luck installing that in VirtualBox/VMWare/Parallels to get up and running. The VersaCheck printer has Windows drivers, that may be the best path to make use of it.

Thanks for your reply.
Both Quicken 2013 and Versacheck 2010 are installed with the same 'bottle" and both work correctly independently. I can print directly from Versacheck to my Linux default printer. The Versacheck program has a file (InstallPrinter.exe) that installs its own "printer" which links Quicken to Versacheck. It does this by creating a printer port (VCPT1) and an associated printer driver. That's the file I can't get to run under wine. Since I have both programs working ok it's not that critical and I can always run it with VMware.

You are correct, it's not a real printer but a way to transfer the Quicken check data into the Versacheck program. In the Quicken program you write a check and "print" it to the Versacheck printer which in turn executes Versacheck and then prints to the native printer. I was encouraged when I was able to get both Quicken and Versacheck woking under Crossover event though they are not supported programs but I guess it's asking too much to expect the Versacheck install printer file to work as well.