[comp.sys.amiga.applications] IBM Proprinter and Panasonic KX-P1124 drivers

snork@iastate.edu (Schuler Rodney Arnold) (05/13/91)

I need to find a driver for an IBM Proprinter or a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer.
Does anybody know of an FTP sites that has these drivers?

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david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey) (05/18/91)

In article <snork.674119540@du248-04.cc.iastate.edu> snork@iastate.edu (Schuler Rodney Arnold) writes:
>
> I need to find a driver for an IBM Proprinter or a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer.
> Does anybody know of an FTP sites that has these drivers?
>

For the KX-P1124, use the NEC-Pinwriter driver that comes with yoyr amiga.

It works great!

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cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor Christian A) (05/19/91)

In article <david.0995@starsoft.hou.tx.us> david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave
 Lowrey) writes:
>In article <snork.674119540@du248-04.cc.iastate.edu> snork@iastate.edu 
(Schuler Rodney Arnold) writes:
>>
>> I need to find a driver for an IBM Proprinter or a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer.
>> Does anybody know of an FTP sites that has these drivers?
>>
>
>For the KX-P1124, use the NEC-Pinwriter driver that comes with yoyr amiga.
>

For the KX-P1124, you may also use the EpsonQPlus driver available
via ftp at ab20.   Since I have never used the NEC-Pinwriter, I
cannot tell which one is the best driver.

- chris

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wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust) (05/20/91)

In article <31293@rouge.usl.edu> cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor Christian A) writes:

>For the KX-P1124, you may also use the EpsonQPlus driver available
>via ftp at ab20.   Since I have never used the NEC-Pinwriter, I
>cannot tell which one is the best driver.

NO!  EpsonQPlus V4 and V5 doesn't work with Panasonic, because
ESC-$ is interpreted differently by the KX-P1124 printer.
The driver works, but you may have to wait 1-2hours to get
you dump ;-)

So use PanasonicPlus V5 and you'll be much faster than
Nec-Pinwriter and have such features like font switching...

>- chris

(PS: Because of a small bug in V4, please use V5 or flush memory
after switching from 360YDPI to 180YDPI)

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cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor Christian A) (05/21/91)

In article <wfaust.6226@venus.UUCP> wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust) writes:
>NO!  EpsonQPlus V4 and V5 doesn't work with Panasonic, because
>ESC-$ is interpreted differently by the KX-P1124 printer.
>The driver works, but you may have to wait 1-2hours to get
>you dump ;-)

   I've never waited that long for a printout.... (at least I
don't recall it  :) .   In other words, are you saying that the KX-P1124 
is not 100% compatible with the Epson LQ-2500 as it is supposed
to be?

>So use PanasonicPlus V5 and you'll be much faster than
>Nec-Pinwriter and have such features like font switching...
>(PS: Because of a small bug in V4, please use V5 or flush memory
>after switching from 360YDPI to 180YDPI)

Ok. I would like to try the 'PanasonicPlus V5'. Where
can I find it?
Thanks a lot for the info.

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- chris


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wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust) (05/22/91)

In article <31442@rouge.usl.edu> cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor Christian A) writes:

>   I've never waited that long for a printout....

Maybe because you have an old EpsonQPlus driver (<V4). The main
performance jump was made V3-->V4 and since V4 I use ESC-$ with
great success.

>In other words, are you saying that the KX-P1124 
>is not 100% compatible with the Epson LQ-2500 as it is supposed
>to be?

Both printer support ESC-$-n.  Only the way they execute the
command are different... Panasonic gets slow... Epson speeds up...

>Ok. I would like to try the 'PanasonicPlus V5'. Where can I find it?

Hmm I don't have FTP.... but I hope to make it available soon on
ab20... (so far: you should find V4 on ab20, but remember to flush
the memory in case of problems...)

>- chris

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