Eric:
I've set this in my calendar for Saturday Feb. 23nd. I'm in a sales
campaign for my company as consulting has taken a dive in the Detroit auto
industry. I have to stay on the phone making calls this week. Sorry for
the slow response.
On Feb 18, 2008 11:23 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Oleg, John,
>
> thanks for contacting me. I did use online and offline
> handbooks for writing the ESC/P mode of GRAPHICS, but
> it seems nobody tested it back then (and I myself only
> had a HP PCL printer). Only this year, somebody told
> me GRAPHICS would print an empty page for ESC/P, but
> he refused to help me to figure out why...
>
> GRAPHICS (the GRAPHPIN part of it) can do both 120x60
> (on real 9pin: 120x72) dpi 8 pin modes (in /C mode)
> as well as 180x180 dpi 24 pin mode.
>
> I use the following sequences, ESC=char(27), CR=char(13),
> LF=char(10), FF=char(12), lo = /C mode, hi = normal mode:
>
>
>
> Init: Set line spacing
> lo: ESC A char(8) CR LF
> hi: ESC 3 char(24) CR LF
>
> Bitmap: Send one block of pixels
> lo, 31 columns 8 rows: ESC L char(31) char(0)
> hi, 70 columns 24 rows: ESC * char(39) char(70) char(0)
>
> Finish: Reset spacing, eject
> both: ESC 0 FF CR LF
>
>
>
> > > What namely does not work? ~2 years ago I tried GRAPHICS, but
> > > got bad results [on Epson LX300]...
>
> If you had told me, I could have repaired it 2 years ago... ;-)
>
> Eric
>
> PS: When I wrote GRAPHICS, I used DOSEMU to grab the printed data.
> I can send you examples of the PostScript output for testing on
> real printers, but it looked okay in ghostscript GV ;-). As for
> the ESC/P part, I tested by writing a minimal simulation of such
> a printer, with PNG output. So if that is broken, so is GRAPHICS.
>
>
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