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- (c) 1990, 1991
- Wolf Faust
- Am Dorfgarten 10
- W-6000 Frankfurt 50
- Germany
- voice ++49-69-5486556 (GMT)
- Fido 2:243/43.5 (Wild Cat: ++49-6173-2544 HST,V.32bis)
- UUCP:cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!cbmger!venus!wfaust
-
- Author's request
- ----------------
- The entire driver package may be noncommercially redistributed,
- provided that the package is always distributed in its complete
- form. A small copy fee for media costs is allowed but any kind of
- commercial distribution is strictly forbidden!
-
- The author and any other distributor takes no responsibility for
- the consequences of its use.
-
- This driver package is shareware. You may feel free to use it
- without any charge. Anyway I ask you to donate some bucks (10$,
- that's 2,3% of my income as student ;-). There is much room left
- for further improvements, but without your support there may be no
- future revisions! So it's on you!
-
- History
- -------
- 26.10.90 Version 35 Rev 1
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 1.5
- - Elite Bug (Setting Elite in Preferences) removed.
- This bug causes a "MW" while initialising the
- printer, also Autoline was setting on, which
- causes a LF with every CR (so you got to much
- lines in your printing...)
- - known bug left: transfer.a is not
- set right for 360YPI
- - reverse P in char table fixed
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 2.0a
- - Bug in transfer.a removed
- new transfer.c now works with 360YDPI
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 2.0b
- - transfer.c translated to assembler, so graphicdumps
- should be faster...
- 07.01.91 Version 35 Rev 3
- - small speed improvements
- 10.02.91 Version 35 Rev 3a
- - no real changes to the driver!
- 08.03.91 Version 35 Rev 4
- - faster memory transfer check.
- 08.04.91 Version 35 Rev 4
- - bug in translation table for chars >247 (= $F7)
- removed. Thanks goes to Bjarke Hvejsel for finding and
- reporting the first bug.
-
- Description:
- ------------
- This driver is intended for all those Canon compatible inkjet
- printers (BJ-130...) out there. Because of improved routines this
- driver is very fast compared to the commodore driver. Also this
- driver supports more graphic and text modes (see below for
- additional features).
-
- You can allways get the latest version for free through the above
- given FIDO/UUCP addresses or send me a selfaddressed letter and
- $10.
-
- Files you must get with this readme:
-
- Canon48.020 - 68020/68030 Driver
- Canon48 - 68000/68010 Driver
- Readme - This textfile
-
- Canon Capsule 48/XL (BJ-130 and compatible 48 inkjet printers)
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- 1. 48-inkjet printer b&w/greyscale printer (text and graphics).
- 2. Density XDPI YDPI XYDPI Comments
- 1 180 180 16200
- 2 180 180 21600
- 3 180 180 32400
- 4 180 180 43200
- 5 180 360 64800
- 6 360 180 64800
- 7 360 360 129600
- 3. A PaperSize of 'Wide Tractor' selects a maximum print width of
- 13.6 inches (for wide carriage printers).
- 4. A papertype of 'SINGLE' ejects the sheet with a formfeed after every
- dump. Formfeed after a graphic dump is send according to the
- SPECIAL_NOFORMFEED flag.
-
- Improvements added (compared to epsonx)
- ---------------------------------------
- 1. Support of more graphic resolutions (360 DPI)!
- 2. The driver has been speeded up. Now it's much faster than
- a standard WB driver.
- 3. Extra driver with support for 68020/30 should be included with
- this package.
- 4. Escape sequence for shadow print, fonts... added.
- 5. This driver supports alphabetic accents and other special
- characters as far as possible. Please note
- that this driver has some limitations: some alphabetic accents are
- not supported by the printer.
- 6. 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):
-
- 0 - Internal ROM CG
- 1 - RAM CG
- 2 - External ROM CG 1 (font cartridge 1)
- 3 - External ROM CG 2 (font cartridge 2)
- 4 - Character set 2
- 5 - Character set 1
- 6 - not supported
- 7 - not supported
- 8 - not supported
- 9 - not supported
- 10 - not supported
-
-
- Hints & Bug Report & Wishes
- ---------------------------
- 1. If possible don't use the ESC-'A' command. If you have to,
- don't forget to reset the printer to 1/6inch linefeed! There is
- no extra 1/6inch linefeed command, so the driver can't do this for
- you!
- 2. Set DIP switch 2-6 ON. Character Set 2 should be default!
- 3. The printer does no perforation skip with graphic dumps!
- So watch out!
- 4. Set DIP switch 1-3 (CR only) and 1-5 OFF!!!!!!!
- 5. In case of a real bug, make sure you have the latest release
- and if so, drop me a note and it will be fixed with the next
- release.
- 6. In case of stripes and empty lines check your printer
- margins (DIP switches, preferences setting, settings within
- the program you use)!
- 7. In case you found a bug: please give me a full description. In
- most cases I can't verify your statements without an example!
-
-
- Notes
- -----
- After my first release of an EpsonLQ compatible printer driver I got
- many letters from people asking for an unsupported printer driver.
-
- Please:
-
- 1. include some money if you wan't to get answered. Postage takes a
- major part of my income (as student I have no real income :-( )
- 2. if you wan't some improvements or you have wishes: drop me a note,
- 3. if you don't have a driver for your printer or your driver
- doesn't fully support your printer: drop me a note with a
- description of your printer and maybe I'll do this for you...
- (if you don't want to wait for an answer: send me a copy of
- your manual. But remember: there is no guarantee I'll do the job!)
-
- -- PS: english is not my native language, so don't call me names... --
-