Hi Henrique, while I agree that it would be interesting to know which character byte corresponds to which character shape for lots of ancient printers, I almost cannot imagine any pre-ESC/P printer to be still working and for those it is always an (although slow) option to print text using graphics mode and the DOS EGA or VGA codepage font data.
You could use FreeDOS GRAPHICS (with HP-PCL, ESC-P and PostScript support) but something specifically tuned to printing black and white text might be faster, of course even more relevant when the PC is as old as the printer. I remember that printers HAD dip switches or otherwise selectable alternate codepages, so if really needed, I could ask around to find old handbooks, but even those printers that I remember already supported graphics ;-) > Yes, dot-matrix printers are old. Yes, I might buy a modern color inkjet > or laser printer, no doubt about that. I don't have a dot-matrix printer > (anymore - I've already had an Epson LX-800 and, later, an Epson LX-300 > and, after that, an Epson Stylus Color - the first color inkjet... ... > You see, the point is that FreeDOS might be useful for people who kept > their old hardware for all these years and would still like to use it, Regards, Eric > http://support.epson.ru/upload/library_file/14/esc-p.pdf > http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/links/esc_p2.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
