jcs@odyssey.UUCP (j.c.schwebel) (03/06/87)
After many pleas to the net, I finally got screen dumps to work on my 24 pin Epson LQ-800 Printer, despite my complete ignorance about printer drivers and refusal to write a line of code for my Atari 1040. This was done by using the latest issue of Start Magazine and Disk which has a program by Tom Hudson to generate printer drivers. Using this program one can generate drivers to give many different formats of screen dumps. The problem with using the standard Epson driver with the LQ-800, I think, is that it puts the printer in single density graphics mode but only spaces about 1/3 (60/180)? of a line at the end of each line. I will post a driver to whomever wants it as soon as I figure out a good standard format. There are tradeoffs between number of pins used, size, quality, and speed of printing. It probably would be more valuable to post the driver creator program; I'll have to check if this is PD. Thank You Tom Hudson!