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Program: Epson Stylus Colour 600/800 driver
Author: Peter Hutchison
Date: 5/2/99
Version: 1.8
Requirements: Any Amiga, WB 1.3 or better
Introduction
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This is my fifth driver to be released . This is a colour printer driver for
the 600 series of the Epson Stylus Colour printers. It should also work with
the Stylus 800 which also supports 1440 dpi.
Features
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Colour: CMYK (Colour AND Black)
Resolution: 180 to 1440 dpi (using Microdot & Microweave).
Supports Microweave in Letter Quality mode.
Aspect: Portrait and Landscape
Output: B&W and Colour Text,
B&W, greyscale and colour graphics
Optimised for Speed.
NEW! Seperate versions for '000 and '020.
Compiled with SAS C 6.58
Densities
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0 180 x 180
1 180 x 180
2 360 x 360
3 360 x 360
4 720 x 720
5 720 x 720
6 1440 x 720
7 1440 x 720
Paper: 10in for most sizes, 14in for US LEGAL
Recommend densities 0-3 for Word Processing output.
Supported Printers
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Epson Stylus 600, 800, Or Photo (3 colours only).
(will support other Stylus' as well but not using higher resolutions).
Should support the new Stylus 640 and 740 (ESC/P2 Raster).
Installation
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Drag the driver to Devs/Printers and click on it in the Printer preferences
program. Single for Paper Type and DIN A4 for Paper Format and set
lines to 66. Select Save.
For PrinterGfx, select Floyd-Steinberg dithering, Integer scaling, Positive
Image, Horz. aspect, Colour and Ignore limits.
To save on black ink use a low Threshold of around 3 and density of 4.
If you are experiencing problems with this driver send me email (see below).
History
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1.0 First release.
Tested okay on PPaint, WordWorth 6 (Normal mode) and Blacks Editor.
1.1 Added Close, ConvFunc functions for form feeds and fixed a compilation
warning (probably cause of Gurus on some machines).
NB: Crashes when using a graphics based Word Processor.
1.2 Fixed crashes in Word Processing output using b/w graphics - using
wrong pointer! Added form length command in DoSpecial. Seems much better!
1.3 Added Page Length command (missing in 1.2), output speeded up esp. WP output.
Other minor stuff.
1.4 Set Microweave on for 1440dpi as default. Added '020 version.
1.5 Removed ESC P from ESC@ string in Render.c
1.6 Reduced init string in Dospecial.c, used ESC! instead. Added missing comma in data.c
Removed CR from init string in Render.c
1.7 Render.c - Changed init string. Added ESC! command, changed margins to use 0
and 255 (instead of 1 and 80).
Added Page length command and added LF to end of each graphics line in Render.c
Added default colour to black in DoSpecial.c
1.8 Data.c. Incorrect apostrophe character changed.
Render.c - added missing Page length command to init string (oops).
Removed unnecessary commands from StartBuf init string.
and removed LF command. Reset margins back to 1 and 80.
Combined StartBuf and GfxBuf together - eradicated mysterious chars in Final
Writer which appear between init strings. Yes!
Future: Run Length Encoding and/or TIFF to reduce amount of data to be sent to printer
and speed up printing.
Giftware
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This driver is Giftware, you are not obliged to send anything but if you
want to contribute to further driver development for this printer and others
then send me either money (5UKP) or old software (Send me a list first and they
must be originals):
Email: pjhutch@blizzard.u-net.com
Web: http://www.blizzard.u-net.com
or
Peter Hutchison
75 Lower Skircoat Green
Copley Lane
Halifax
W Yorks
England
HX3 0TG