OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:14:29AM -0400, Daniel Bauer wrote:
...
>> 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.

Unless you can get Jim Asman interested in them in which case they will do
anything :-).

The CUPSs support for Epson printers is generally very good.  I have
several Epson C84s running at customer sites on Linux and Mac OS X boxes
which do pretty much anything you want.

On the other hand, to get this type of support, CUPS generally wants to see
PostScript(TM) input.  There are text filters for CUPS, but I haven't
looked into them enough to see how they handle things like printer codes.

Bill
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