[net.micro.amiga] EPSON device driver bug

papa@uscvax.UUCP (Marco Papa) (02/12/86)

Related to fix by

>
>       David Berezowski
>       CBM/Amiga (East Coast)

The given fix is not enough.  One has also to change the following line in the
file printertag.asm (see the ROM Kernel Manual):

DC.W 82         ; YDotsInch

to the following:

DC.W 72         ; YDotsInch

Otherwise graphics pictures are stretched vertically.  I found the bug while
I was building an IBM PC Graphics Printer driver, which is a variation of the
EPSON version, but that has quite a number of differences. If you use the
EPSON driver with the IBM printer, you will experience some problems, since
some of the escape sequences are different, and some are missing.  Sorry, but
a number of files needed to build the printer (including printertag.asm) have
restrictions on their reproduction, so I cannot download them to the net.


Marco Papa
USC - Computer Science Dept.

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