dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (12/23/88)
>dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) wrote: >>the EpsonQ implementation is all wrong for the LQ500. >>It works, but doesn't work as well as it could. > >I'd say it isn't all wrong then. Could you describe what problems it >has? I'm interested in this driver; I just picked up an Epson L-1000, >apparently this year's model of the LQ500. > >...Bob >-- >Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page >Have five nice days. - LQ500 has a 15 pitch font which you definately want to use for FINE instead of condensed 12 pitch (same height as condensed though condensed is 17 pitch, but the 15 *looks* real). - The only Lpi settings that are speced are for 6 and 8 lpi, yet with 15+ pitch characters even 8 lpi puts too much blank space between lines. Rightly, it should be bumped internally to 8 and 10 lpi for 15+ pitch mode. - A delay is spec'd on reset when none is needed. All later model Epson's have damn good parallel port interfaces. - The printer is placed in uni-directional mode for graphics defeating the printer's switch settings (it has a switch to select graphics mode uni/bi-directional printing). That's what I can think of off the top of my head ... -Matt