OT - switching from oki590 color to epsonc84

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:22:48 -0400):

> 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.
[...]
> 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.

The C84 uses "ESC/P Raster", not "ESC/P2". From the sounds of it, it's
one of those brain-dead "host-based" printers. I have no idea if it is
even capable of printing plain ASCII text. (Some "host-based" printers
can't even do that. Some have just enough brains to print a single
10-pitch monospaced font.)

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