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- Epson Stylus Color IIs printer driver (second beta test release)
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- This driver should enable you to drive this printer upto its full resolution of
- 720dpi * (see later for some notes on this).
-
- Printer settings such as uni/bi-directional printing and economy mode are left
- upto the printer. An exception to this is MicroWeave for which there is no
- printer-cofigurable option. The density settings in preferences therefore
- correspond to the following options:
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- Density Resolution MicroWeave
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- 1 180x180 No
- 2 180x180 Yes
- 3 360x360 No
- 4 360x360 Yes
- 5 360x720 No (My printer doesn't support this, does yours?)
- 6 360x720 Yes
- 7 720x720 * Yes
-
- * Notes for 720dpi printing:
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-
- As far as I can gather, the Stylus IIs can *not* actually print 720dpi. Instead
- it achieves an effective dot placement resolution of upto 1/720th of an inch by
- printing two 360dpi rasters offset by 1/720th of an inch as in the following
- diagram:
-
- #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.
- .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o # correspond to one 360dpi raster
- #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#. o correspond to another
- .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o . is a gap
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- Strictly speaking the dpi value is sqr(2)*360 or a bit over 500dpi along the
- diagonals. This means that exactly half of your image data is ignored when
- printing at these densities.
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- Author's Address
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- email: alex@warp.demon.co.uk
- smail: Alex Tucker,
- "Strawberry Fields",
- Cliff Road,
- Skipsea,
- East Yorkshire.
- YO25 8TF
- UK
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- Please send bugs/praise/suggestions/chocolate cake. If the driver really changes
- your life, you could always send a couple of quid/bucks/assorted change my way to
- go towards the cost of the £40 ESC/P reference manual :)
-
- Revision History
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- 21-May-96: Initial beta released.
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- 29-May-96: Removed mungwall hit reported by Andrea Latina. Oops.
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