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- (c) 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 speed improvements, but without your support there may
- be no future revisions! So it's on you!
-
- 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:
-
- PanasonicPlus.020 - 68020/68030 Driver
- PanasonicPlus - 68000/68010 Driver
- Readme - This textfile
- Readme.first - List of printers supported
- Test.lzh - script&pitcures for testing
-
- History
- -------
- 04.03.91 Version 35 Rev 4
- 15.05.91 Version 35 Rev 5
- - after selecting 360YDPI, no <360YDPI mode won't work
- anymore, because NumRows doesn't got reseted. fixed
-
- Note: after 2 month someone finaly told me the unnoticed bug in
- revision 4! Are you guys sleeping out there? Flame me...
-
- Description:
- ------------
- This driver is intended for all those Panasonic/EpsonLQ compatible
- dot matrix printers out there. The driver is up to 2000% faster
- compared to the commodore EpsonQ driver and supports more graphic
- modes (see below for additional features).
-
- PanasonicPlus (24-pin Epson compatible)
- -------------
- 1. Dot matrix b&w/color printer (text and graphics).
- 2. Drives all EpsonQ/EpsonQ+ compatible printers.
- 3. Linefeeds # of vertical dots printed.
- 4. Density XDPI YDPI XYDPI Comments
- 1 90 180 16200
- 2 120 180 21600
- 3 180 180 32400
- 4 120 360 43200 two pass
- 5 180 360 64800 two pass
- 6 360 180 64800 *1
- 7 360 360 129600 two pass *1
- 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.
-
- Improvements added (compared to EpsonQ)
- ------------------
- 1. The old PaperType function has been removed for a sheet
- cutting feature. No more 16pins support ! 24pins should be
- mastered by modern printers, specially in 360*360DPI mode...
- Selecting SINGLE in preferences ejects the sheet after using
- the printer. This enables cutting sheet features.
- 2. Support of more graphic resolutions (360 YDPI) !
- 3. The driver has been speeded up. Now it's much faster than
- a standard WB driver.
- 4. Extra driver with support for 68020/30 should be included with
- this package.
- 5. 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 Panasonic Seikosha
-
- 0 - ESC(B - Courier - Roman - Bold PS - S. Roman
- 1 - ESC(R - opt.typeface - Sans Serif - Sans Serif - S. Helv.
- 2 - ESC(K - Prestige - Courier - Courier - Courier 10
- 3 - ESC(A - Orator - Prestige - Prestige - Prest.Elite
- 4 - ESC(E - Script - Script - Script - Script
- 5 - ESC(H - - OCR-B - - OCR-B
- 6 - ESC(Y - - OCR-A - - OCR-A
- 7 - ESC(Z - - Orator - - Gothic 12
- 8 - ESC(J - - Orator S - - Orator
- 9 - ESC(6 - - - -
- 10 - ESC(C - - - -
-
- (PS: Excellence users watch out! These commands cause sleepless
- nights ;-)
-
- 6. Timeout is now set according to the preference settings. In
- case something is wrong with your printer you sooner get a
- requester. This enables you to cancel a print request more
- quickly. How "timeout" is calculated:
-
- b&w or grey + 180YDPI = 20 seconds
- b&w or grey + 360YDPI = 40 seconds
- color + 180YDPI = 30 seconds
- color + 360YDPI = 60 seconds
-
- Commo's EpsonQ driver = allways 30 seconds
-
- 7. The printer driver now uses the 24 pin modus for 90XDPI and
- 120XDPI graphic printings. This results in a better quality
- and a faster graphic dump.
-
- 8. The driver now uses ESC-$ (abs. horiz. position) to advance
- the printerhead over white areas while doing graphic dumps.
- Please note: this method might not be suitable to your printer and
- in case your printer gets ugly slow: this is not your driver (contact me!).
- Use the "test" script to find out if your printer handles ESC-$ right
- with this driver.
-
- The Panasonic KX-P1124 is one of those printers, which handle
- ESC-$ a bit different to those new printers from
- Epson/Citizen/Seikosha/Nec. To avoid a loss in speed for this
- printer, I made this extra driver which uses ESC-$ a bit differently
- compared to the EpsonQPlus and Star24Plus driver.
-
- ESC-$ is used:
-
- a.) the white area is greater than 2inch and you're doing
- 360XDPI graphic dumps
- b.) it's the white left border
- c.) ESC-$ is used wherever possible while doing <360XDPI graphic dumps.
-
- Special things to note
- ----------------------
- 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. in case you found a bug: please give me a full description or
- better: an example image/printout. In most cases I can't verify
- your statements without an example!
- 3. if you wan't some improvements or you have wishes: drop me a note,
- 4. 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!)
- requester asking you to check your printer cable. In this case
- 5. please note: this driver is specialy written for Panasonic
- printers. Some other printers maybe compatible with the Pansonic (Epson)
- commands, but differ in speed. Because of this, there might be a
- requester asking you to check your printer cable. In this case
- you can ignore the requester by pressing "Resume".
-
- Notes
- -----
- *1 - in this mode most printers cannot print two consecutive dots in a row.
- It is recommended that you only use this density for B&W Shade dumps.
-
- -- english is not my native language, so don't call me names... --
-