Unix drivers for Epson ESC/P2
Rob McMahon
systems. Has anyone got any filters specifically for this device ? A
p?mtoescp2 would be ideal. DVI filters and Ghostscript backends would also be
extremely useful. Anything that spits out ESC/P2 codes would be much
appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob
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Peter da Silva
> We have an Epson SQ-1170 printer, which we want to connect to our Unix
> systems. Has anyone got any filters specifically for this device ? A
> p?mtoescp2 would be ideal. DVI filters and Ghostscript backends would also be
> extremely useful. Anything that spits out ESC/P2 codes would be much
> appreciated.
Well, I got started on a Ghostscript driver some months ago but got stalled
by the execrable nature of Epson's current user documentation. The old Epson
manuals were quite good, but now they look like they were created by cutting
and pasting from the reference pages of previous texts with very little new
material and no explanatory text.
They have a manual you can purchase that's supposed to be better, but I've
been sidetracked on other projects since then. If anyone were to donate a
better description of ESC/P2 I wouldn't mind giving it another shot.
(ideally, since they're pushing scalable fonts and all that, they should
plug a Postscript interpreter in and trash all these funky escape sequences...
or failing that, go to ANSI)
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Chris Lewis
>In article <kacn...@csv.warwick.ac.uk> cu...@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>> We have an Epson SQ-1170 printer, which we want to connect to our Unix
>> systems. Has anyone got any filters specifically for this device ? A
>> p?mtoescp2 would be ideal. DVI filters and Ghostscript backends would also be
>> extremely useful. Anything that spits out ESC/P2 codes would be much
>> appreciated.
There's a PBM to 24 pin driver in hp2pbm (as well as the HP PCL to PBM
driver). Obviously, it doesn't take advantage of the scalable fonts...
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