OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:14:29AM -0400, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> I'm wondering if this is an option.  I've got a site running a standard SCO
> 5.0.7 Box and filePro 5.014 and using an Oki590 with a color kit.  Very
> simply it prints some simple plain text forms using different colors to
> highlight information. It looks like the printer is fried. (the alert light
> is on and I haven't been able to reset it) The Oki was configured with a
> serial adapter and I was printing directly to it thru filePro and UNIX
> /dev/tty1a4
> 
> There is already an EpsonC84 jet ink printer there on the local PC network
> and I was able to reroute printing to it but w/o color.  I set up the
> printer for UNIX use using Facetwin configured with an Epson driver. Does
> anyone have print codes to switch colors? Is it even possible? Thanks in
> advance for your assistance. 

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the only thing you can get out
of the Epson C-series inkjets from a unix box is 10-pitch black; no
bold or italics even.

Cheers,
-- jra
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