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Copyright ©1991,92
Wolf Faust
Am Dorfgarten 10
W-6000 Frankfurt 50
Germany
voice ++49-69-5486556 (GMT)
Fido 2:249/3.5 (Wild Cat: ++49-6173-2544 HST,V.32bis)
UUCP: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org or try
cbmehq!cbmger!venus!wfaust@cbmvax.commodore.com
History
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You can use the Kickstart 2 "Version" shellcommand to find out the
revision of the driver by typing
"Version Devs:Printers/Star9Plus"
13.08.91 Version 35 Rev 1
01.05.92 Version 35 Rev 2
- I' fixed
- new WB 2.0/2.1 paper sizes added
- improved MemCpy() and MemClr() routines
Description:
------------
This driver is intended for all those Star & Epson compatible
dot matrix printers out there. The driver is up to 2000% faster
compared to commo's EpsonX driver and supports more graphic modes
(see below for additional features).
Installation
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1. Install and connect the printer as described in the printer manual.
2. Set the printer dip-switches as descibed below:
Automatic line feed off
Automatic carriage return off
International charset USA
Emulation Epson (standard)
3. Boot your Amiga with your normaly used system disk.
4. Insert the Canon driver disk and select the drawer of your
printer.
5. Doubleclick the 'Install' program. The 'Install' program
will copy the driver on your system disk. Sometimes there is no
disk space free on the system disk and the install program will
pop up a requester telling so. In this case free up some disk
space on your system disk by deleting unused files.
In case you are a CLI user, simply copy the driver into your
"devs:printers" directory.
6. Now start preferences on your system disk (if you own Kickstart 2.0
use the 'Printer' preference program). Select the Star9Plus
driver and adjust all other preference parameters to your
environment. See your system manual for more information about
the preference program.
General Information about Star9Plus (9-pin Epson compatible)
--------------------------------------------------------------
1. Dot matrix b&w/color printer (text and graphics).
2. Drives all Star&Epson compatible printers.
3. Linefeeds # of vertical dots printed.
4. Density XDPI YDPI XYDPI Comments
1 144 144 20736 plotter graphics
2 120 144 17280 double density
3 240 72 17280 quadruple density
4 120 216 25920 double density
5 240 144 34560 quadruple density
6 144 216 31104 double density
7 240 216 51840 quadruple density
5. A PaperSize of 'Wide Tractor' selects a maximum print width of
13.6 inches (for wide carriage printers).
6. A papertype of 'SINGLE' ejects the sheet with a formfeed after every
dump. This enables Epsons sheet cutting feature. Formfeed
after a graphic dump is send according to the SPECIAL_NOFORMFEED flag.
7. Users which previously used the Plus drivers might search for
the ".020" turbo version of the driver.
Thanks to special code done in this driver, the driver
automaticly makes use of the improved features of
68020/30/40 processors. There is absolutly no more need for
a "turbo" version of the driver, because everything is built in.
During initialisation, the driver finds out wich type of processor
is currently used. If it is run on an improved processer
(i.e. 68020,68030 or 68040), it uses the optimised turbo routines.
These routines take care of new instructions and performance
increase by using the processor cache.
8. There is now support for selecting different typefaces. Due
to the extended character translation table, the character set
selection commands (aFNT0 - aFNT10) are no longer really needed.
The following fonts are yet supported (some only with additional
cartridges):
aFNT Code Star Epson
0 - ESC(B - Courier - Roman
1 - ESC(R - SansSerif - Sans Serif
2 - ESC(K - - Courier
3 - ESC(A - - Prestige
4 - ESC(E - Script - Script
5 - ESC(H - - OCR-B
6 - ESC(Y - - OCR-A
7 - ESC(Z - Orator - Orator
8 - ESC(J - - Orator S
9 - ESC(6 - -
10 - ESC(C - -
(PS: Excellence users watch out! These commands cause sleepless
nights and much nice paper dumped ;-)
9. The driver now uses ESC-$ (abs. horiz. position) to advance
the printerhead over white areas while doing graphic dumps.
This results in a great speed improvement because less data must
be send to the printer.
Please note: this method might not be suitable to your printer and
in case your printer "left justified" graphics
-- english is not my native language, so don't call me names... --