A friend needs an Epson DFX5000 or DFX8000 or DFX8500 print codetable. Anyone got one?

[John Esak]

That's funny, Steve... That is exactly what I told him right off... (it's
all I remembered... But at least I remembered that much). The problem is
that *some* forms ar legal length and some are not.  I think he can maybe
split between front and back carriage, but either way he needs to know some
soft codes so he can change them form to form. Thanks much, though.  I had
told him about the "skip perf" switch and I thought there was a lines per
page switch... But I couldn't rmember if you wanted to skip the perf or not.
:-(  I'm guessing if the form is 84 lines, that is one form and the perf
takes up one line, so it should be skipped and then the next form has 84
lines as well.  Hell, if it doesn't work one way, how hard is ti to flip it
and you're done.

His problem is the printer is kicking out extra lines as if it's thinking
it's printing on 66 lines per page. I had him put an "84" on line "84" of
his ofrm, then I printed from filePro into a file.. .and it landed in
exactly the right place... So it is the printer itself (and hopefully not
the interface file) which is doing this.  The interface is the netcat/Net
file, so I wouldn't want to mess with it. But I don't think it sets up for
page oriented printers.  Even so, he needs the manual.  Dale, are you
reading this?  :-)

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Wiltsie [mailto:swiltsie at micro-mui.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: RE: A friend needs an Epson DFX5000 or DFX8000 or 
> DFX8500 print codetable. Anyone got one?
> 
> John,
> 
> I have several customers who have used these models over the 
> years.  At
> least one still has two in use.  I think your friend needs to look at
> the manual in the dip switch settings section.  There is a "don't skip
> over perf" setting and a paper length setting there.
> 
> Steve Wiltsie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+swiltsie=micro-mui.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+swiltsie=micro-mui.com at lists.cele
stial.com]
> On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 3:34 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: A friend needs an Epson DFX5000 or DFX8000 or DFX8500 print
> codetable. Anyone got one?
> 
> These Epson series of printers has two tractor feeds. The "epsonfx"
> table
> that comes with fielPro is dead simple, no such codes for selecting
> which
> tractor to use. It also doesn't have the codes to set 84 
> lines per inch,
> so
> the printer will jump the prforations cleanly on a legal 
> form. If anyone
> has
> this table built already, would you mind posting it up here 
> as a link to
> it.
> or even as an attadchment. Print code tables are tiny. Heck, for that
> matter, just put it right into the body of an email response, is the
> simplest and best way from the list perspective.
> 
> Meanwhile, he will look for a manual for the printer, but if 
> the wheell
> has
> been invented already, it would be very nice for him to be 
> able to avail
> himself of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Esak
> 
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