On 24 pin Epson printers, you can print graphics as fast as printing text. there is a special mode where consecutive high definition dots cannot be on, which is the text mode printing trick...
But I believe that even if you use the more universal mode, it will be fast enough, specially if compared with the alternative which is no mode at all... It woul be best if you could devise a method to automaticaly translate the screen bitmaps do printer bitmaps... Alain Em 06-05-2011 13:51, Henrique Peron escreveu: > Hi Mark, > > it's not about "willing to accept". Unfortunately, printing on graphics > mode seems to be the only common denominator among all brands and models > of printers. > > Naturally, if someone needs a character table which is already hardcoded > to his/her printer, all (s)he will have to do is to setup his/her > printer accordingly and print on text mode. However, many printers have > a very reduced set of character tables; furthermore, there are a lot of > codepages which I created for FreeDOS which naturally aren't hardcoded > anywhere. > > Last but not least - the DOS drivers you pointed us to refer to 32-bit DOS. > > Henrique > > Em 6/5/2011 11:20, Mark Blain escreveu: >> Henrique Peron<hpe...@terra.com.br> wrote in >> news:4dc2ebc0.30...@terra.com.br: >> >>> I just read a PDF file "Epson ESC/P Reference Manual". It explains >>> that 24-pin printers can "receive" definitions on 241 characters >>> into its RAM but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only >>> receive 6 characters. It seems that uploading a codepage into a >>> printer's RAM is out of the question. :-( >>> >>> Perhaps the idea (which is what I did once with a 9-pin Epson >>> LX-800 that I had) is to manipulate the printer head directly. >>> That would leave CPI files and hardcoded printer codepages out of >>> the equation. That would force me to manually provide the data >>> (through a TXT file) which would be sent to a printer through some >>> program which would pose as a "printer driver". I would like to >>> elaborate more on this but it seems this is the wrong freedos-list >>> to do that. I have some ideas and perhaps we could work together >>> on a "printer driver" for FreeDOS. >> If you're willing to accept the very slow printing speed of your >> printer's graphics mode then you may want to investigate GhostScript, >> which already provides a wide variety of fonts, sizes and printer >> drivers. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 >> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get510.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software >> The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network >> management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial >> acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
