tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) (04/07/88)
I have a 24-pin printer, Seikosha SL80AI, which I want to use with my Amiga 2000. I'm aware of the problem in giving japaneese company names on the net, since some of them use different names in different countries (my Nanao multi-sync is called Eizo) but Seikosha is owned by Seiko (the clock makers) and may use this name in USA and Germany where usually most hope lies for finding people with knowledge of Amiga. I have just hooked it up, and it prints text real fine. The text printing is supposed to be Epson LQ-compatible, but I haven't had time to try the different text modes with my EPSON printer driver (from Shakespeare disk). What is the problem is graphics. Of course I want them to work as well, thus requiring a printer driver supporting this thing. On earlier machines I've worked with, you could normally get a C/assembly source of a printer driver, where one part was a table with the different codes for selecting the modes. These codes were easy to replace with those for my printer. You "just" have to find a driver that uses a similar way of decoding the graphics info. If someone could help me out on this, sending help and a driver source, I would be most thankful. Of course a ready-made binary is a terrific solution, too. I will start looking through the manual for information about graphics information etc. I've just seen that it supports 8- and 24-pin graphics, single- to quadruple density aso. Hope for responses - I will come with more questions later about hard disks!