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Axel Berger
Feb 25, 2012, 9:48:56 AM2/25/12
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My last printer capable of printing text without needing to have them
explained pixel by pixel has just died. Is there a simple software for
DOS or Win98 translating Esc-P for a fixed width font to whatever
"modern" printer drivers need?
Alternatively can I import Esc-P into OpenOffice? Not a lot is done
there, a few words printed bold and the Heading double size.
Danke
Axel
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Feb 27, 2012, 2:54:55 AM2/27/12
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"Axel Berger" <Axel....@Gmx.De> wrote in message news:4F48F4D8...@Gmx.De...
you can go to Esc-P website and get the drive for it there
like http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportIndex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes
Type all or a portion of the product name.
portion of the product name
Results 1 through 1 of 1 for "ESC" within Products
Epson B808342 (IEEE-1394 FireWire Scanner Interface Card)
So Type all the product name.
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /
like http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportIndex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes
Type all or a portion of the product name.
portion of the product name
Results 1 through 1 of 1 for "ESC" within Products
Epson B808342 (IEEE-1394 FireWire Scanner Interface Card)
So Type all the product name.
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
Feb 28, 2012, 3:36:30 AM2/28/12
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In message <jihquv$c7b$1...@motofox-rules.dont-email.me>, MotoFox
<confucius-say@enlightenment!to!him!lead!it!for!bangpath!follow!man!wise.
UUCP> writes:
>And it came to pass that Axel Berger delivered the following message unto
>the people, saying~
>Not sure what exactly you mean, but I'll bite anyways. DOS already has
>simple text printing support built in, so all you really need to do is
[]
I _think_ he means he no longer has a plain text printer, i. e. one with
the fonts in the printer, and was wondering if there's a simple software
character generator available. (I suspect there isn't.)
[I have dot-matrix printers you could have, but you'd have to be in
Kent, England!]
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Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. -Carl
Gustav
Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)
<confucius-say@enlightenment!to!him!lead!it!for!bangpath!follow!man!wise.
UUCP> writes:
>And it came to pass that Axel Berger delivered the following message unto
>the people, saying~
>
>> My last printer capable of printing text without needing to have them
>> explained pixel by pixel has just died. Is there a simple software for DOS
[]
>> My last printer capable of printing text without needing to have them
>> explained pixel by pixel has just died. Is there a simple software for DOS
>Not sure what exactly you mean, but I'll bite anyways. DOS already has
>simple text printing support built in, so all you really need to do is
[]
I _think_ he means he no longer has a plain text printer, i. e. one with
the fonts in the printer, and was wondering if there's a simple software
character generator available. (I suspect there isn't.)
[I have dot-matrix printers you could have, but you'd have to be in
Kent, England!]
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. -Carl
Gustav
Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)
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Computer Nerd Kev
Feb 29, 2012, 1:25:14 AM2/29/12
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On 28 Feb 2012, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> I _think_ he means he no longer has a plain text printer,
> i. e. one with the fonts in the printer, and was wondering
> if there's a simple software character generator available.
> (I suspect there isn't.)
I think the driver for my Lexmark Z12 had some settings for
> I _think_ he means he no longer has a plain text printer,
> i. e. one with the fonts in the printer, and was wondering
> if there's a simple software character generator available.
> (I suspect there isn't.)
printing from DOS inside Windows, though I've never had the
need to use them.
Quite a few old ink jets also support plain text, it might be
best to look for one of these as the cartridges are still
available for some models.
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Anton Shepelev
Mar 1, 2012, 2:36:48 AM3/1/12
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Axel:
> My last printer capable of printing text without
> needing to have them explained pixel by pixel has
> just died. Is there a simple software for DOS or
> Win98 translating Esc-P for a fixed width font to
> whatever "modern" printer drivers need?
I have found the following (commercial) programs
that seem to do what you need:
http://www.araisa.com/
http://www.printfil.com/english.htm
http://www.dosprn.com/dos-print.htm
although I am not sure they support Windows 98.
Anton
> My last printer capable of printing text without
> needing to have them explained pixel by pixel has
> just died. Is there a simple software for DOS or
> Win98 translating Esc-P for a fixed width font to
> whatever "modern" printer drivers need?
that seem to do what you need:
http://www.araisa.com/
http://www.printfil.com/english.htm
http://www.dosprn.com/dos-print.htm
although I am not sure they support Windows 98.
Anton
Axel Berger
Mar 1, 2012, 12:08:38 PM3/1/12
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Anton Shepelev wrote:
> I have found the following (commercial) programs
> that seem to do what you need:
>
> http://www.araisa.com/
> http://www.printfil.com/english.htm
> http://www.dosprn.com/dos-print.htm
Thanks, that's great to know and I'll save the info. For the time being
> I have found the following (commercial) programs
> that seem to do what you need:
>
> http://www.araisa.com/
> http://www.printfil.com/english.htm
> http://www.dosprn.com/dos-print.htm
I have found that just deleting all codes and printing naked text
without extras in a monospaced font is sufficient for my needs, anything
more was just bells and whistles anyway.
I have also looked at a manual and it seems a rather simple scriptable
search and replace will probably suffice to translate Esc/P into RTF. So
I'll probably not spend any money on the problem.
Danke
Axel
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Axel Berger
Mar 3, 2012, 8:52:10 PM3/3/12
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MotoFox wrote:
> But what's ESC-P? Are you saying you have an Epson parallel
> printer or is this some sort of formatting language like Postscript?
No I'm saying I used to have several Canon parallel port printers using
variants of Epson's Esc/P language and all of them have died. Result,
none of my old DOS programs can print any more. Printing to file has
always been possible, but I need a way to make use of such files.
Thankfully I no longer have need of graphics printed that way.
> But what's ESC-P? Are you saying you have an Epson parallel
> printer or is this some sort of formatting language like Postscript?
No I'm saying I used to have several Canon parallel port printers using
variants of Epson's Esc/P language and all of them have died. Result,
none of my old DOS programs can print any more. Printing to file has
always been possible, but I need a way to make use of such files.
Thankfully I no longer have need of graphics printed that way.
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