OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:55:37AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >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.

Ok, to clarify: *if you send ASCII text directly in the parallel port
on an Epson C-series inkjet*, that's all you'll get.  I *tried* sending
it ESC/p2 sequences, and it didn't work out for me.  This was on a
C-84, perhaps the -86s and -88s are different.

Cheers,
-- jra
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