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P2-01: For Epson and Compatibles ------------------------ 2003 Fonts/File Printing Small Programs Disk ------------------------ ColrView prints text files in color on the Epson JX-80. Convert 1.1 (CONVEPS) Root, John $15 converts files from 9-pin double density to 24-pin hex density. Also included is a utility for use with Mirage and a utility to print graphics files which have been output to a disk file rather than to a printer. FontGen $? lets you design character fonts to be downloaded into your Epson FX-compatible printer. Just-LQ Ford, Nelson ASP $? prints files using proportional print and micro-justification for a near typeset appearance on the Epson LQ printers. LQChar 1.23 Meyer, Eric $0 is a small, efficient utility for designing downloadable character fonts for Epson LQ-compatible 24-pin dot matrix printers. It has LQ to Draft conversion; the ability to copy characters from another font; to preview fonts on EGA. LQ-Print letter-quality file printer for FX-series printers. Micro Print (MP-KW) Whitney, Kenneth D. $? prints text files at 17 characters per inch and 12 lines per inch on IBM and compatible printers. Options allow you to format the printout to fit into IBM-sized binders and to skip every other page so that you can turn the paper over and print on the other side. PPS3 Cox, Doug $0 reformats and prints a file in proportional spacing on an Epson LQ printer. Prnchr 1.3 WyNiWyG Group $5 lets you redefine fonts on an Epson 9 or 24-pin printer. After you edit the characters, the program automatically creates a file for you to send to your printer. This is very easy and powerful system for designing your own fonts, or creating special characters. English and French instructions are provided. Print150 1.00 (PRINT15) Software, Etc. $0 will print 120 or 150 lines per page on IBM/Epson Graphics printer. BASIC is required. (In PsL tests, it did not work on an LQ-series printer.) PRWide is designed for printing files on wide paper on Epson compatible printers. PRWIDE automatically determines which of three formats to use. Files with long lines (greater than 135) will print single file. Files with medium size lines (between 88 - 135) will print two pages on each sheet side by side. Files with short lines (less than 88) will print three pages per sheet. SimPrint 1.0 (SIMPRIN) Lujanac, Paul $17 is a file printing utility for the Epson LQ-500 printer and other Epson-compatible printers. It will optionally strip high bits to help convert files to straight text. It lets you enter ASCII characters to signal it to invoke different printing features, such as expanded print. TL prints files using compressed, subscripted print. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2003 -------------------------------- -------------------- 0194 Printer Control Small Programs Disk -------------------- BuzOff turns off the paper-out alarm. EZ Epson 1.08 (EZEPSON) Celista Software $5 allows access to some of your printer's capabilities that are not available through use of the front panel switches. One option available is the "feed paper". It feeds the paper ahead just enough to remove the document, and then reverses the paper so printing can resume on the next empty page. This avoids wasting a lot of paper. It works with many Epson and Epson-mode printers. EPset 3.1 Monroe, Gerald A. $15 is an Epson printer set-up and control program. It also allows you to print WordStar document files without converting them to ASCII first. EpsonSet (EPSONSE) memory-resident set-up utility for FX compatibles. FX2LQ 1.0 Naff, Ric $0 is a TSR that will monitor printer output and translate FX vertical-spacing codes to LQ vertical-spacing codes. It takes 10k of DOS RAM. FXMaster 3.31E Raub, Brian $15 uses one menu (or command line parameters) to let you select all 160+ Epson FX-series fonts from your keyboard or batch files. The program can issue a reset, linefeed, or form-feed, and can variably set margins, skip-over-perf, line spacing and form length, and initial character sets. It also toggles on/off: sheet-feeder, paper-out sensor, typewriter mode, and quiet (half-speed) mode. It also supports "Dots Perfect" upgrade from Dresselhaus Industries. LQ-1500 is the same as EpsonSet, but for the Epson LQ-1500. LQ800 is a memory resident program which is designed to allow the user to select from among 30 different fonts and options for Epson LQ800 printers. LQ8Prnt 1.5 Forrest, Rob $5 is a printer setup program for Epson LQ800 printers. It should also work with the newer LQ series. LQSeries Grimmer, Dave $10 will allow you to get any of the 224 different print styles from your Epson LQ series printer. Margin is a menu-driven utility to set printer margins. NU-Epson is a "pop-up" printer set-up utility for Epson-compatible printers. We already have one, but this one has different options. P is a menu-driven printer set-up program. PerfSkip (PERFSKI) skips designated number of lines over perforation. PMenu3 is a resident printer setting utility. PrnFiltr (PRNFILT) Frank, Tom $0 allows an EPSON LQ (or compatible) printer to more closely emulate an FX-80 class printer. This allows most graphics and word processing programs to work properly. The main symptom is that pages printed are longer than 1 page. This is due to the fact that the LQ uses the same escape sequences as the FX but interprets the spacing codes differently. Tiny sets the printer to 17 cpi and 14 lines-per-inch. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0194 -------------------------------- ------------------------------- 0649 Epson Printer Applications Small Programs Disk ------------------------------- 0649 Sideways Printing --------------------- LUM LCS $45 is a pop-up, sideways-printing utility for spreadsheet and text files for Epson compatible printers. LUM supports reverse high-lighting, superscript, subscript, up to eight types of underlining types or overstrikings, and extended ASCII characters. LUM comes with a 10x6 dot font and a 40x24 dot uppercase ASCII font. LUM invokes a secondary copy of COMMAND.COM, which it requires to be on drive A:. 81k PrintUp DPI Services $20 is a utility that can be used to intermix regular text with text that is printed 90 degrees to the left of normal. PRINT-UP will give you the ability to print the turned text to the left, right or in the middle of regular text. PRINTUP has the ability to prescan the data file (what you see on your monitor is what will go to your printer) that has PRINT-UP areas marked in the file. The use of the prescan feature along with the ability to chose the lines of the file that you want to prescan can save you a large amount of time. The other timesaver of Print-up is that you can create a disk-file of the output data and print it at your convenience. SidePrnt (SIDEPRN) $0 prints plain text files sideways. Enter: SIDEPRNT filename [/D] - "/D" doubles the print quality. Pascal source code comes with it. Sidewrite (SW) DEA Software $? prints text files sideways to allow very long lines. For example, it will print a spreadsheet (which has been printed to a disk file) that has too many columns to fit across a page horizontally. Works on the IBM, Epson and HP ThinkJet printers. 0649 General Labels ------------------- CLM Updyke, Merwin $? prints fancy labels on Star NX-10, Epson and IBM printers for various uses such as labeling disks and books and making address labels. Label Paint 1.0 (LPAINT) XPoint Systems $15 prints custom labels using several different font styles, drawing tools, and features the ability to import Print Master graphic icons. Requires 512K RAM, a mouse, EGA/VGA or monographics monitor, and an Epson or compatible printer. LBL-JX Ford, Nelson ASP $0 prints color labels on the JX color printer. Can also be used on non-color Epson printers. Allows mixing different print sizes, printing 5, 6 or 7 lines per label, auto-centering, serial numbering, saving label layouts. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0649 -------------------------------- ----------------------------- 2168 Printer Output: Graphics Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- EGAEpson Van Horn, Dr. R. Brooks Jr. $? lets you do a graphics PrtSc from an EGA monitor to an Epson printer. Gfx MacLean, Randy ASP $? is a utility designed to simplify the generation of graphics on Epson compatible printers. It allows you to quickly create a small graphic image which GFX will store in a small disk file which will reproduce the graphic when dumped to the printer. A mouse is required. Grafx downloads the upper ASCII set into an FX. IBMChr is a resident utility to print upper ASCII characters. Letrhead (LETRHEA) lets you create letterheads for your stationary. In testing on an Epson LQ-850 at 6 lines per inch, gaps in the graphics were left between lines. After setting the printer to 8 lines per inch, the problem was minimized. RLEPrt 1.2 Harper, Richard G. ASP $5 will print a high-resolution run-length-encoded file in 128 x 96 black and white format directly to your Epson or IBM compatible printer. RXLate prints screen's box graphics to RX-80's characters. ScrnDump (SCRNDMP) graphics screen dump utility for Herc, CGA, EGA. 2168 Banners/Signs ------------------ CarSign Mutant Software $? lets you create your own variant of the "Kid on Board" sign to stick on your car's rear window. It displays a template to guide you in entering text, then prints it. The Epson MX/FX, IBM ProPrinter and HP ThinkJet printers are supported. 2168 BarCode ------------ Barcode 2.0 (BRCD-ET) Electronic Technologies $10 prints a barcode on an Epson compatible dot matrix printer from command line input. UPC, Interleave 2-of-5, and Code 39 barcodes are supported. Code3of9 Wood, Bill contains a BASIC program that will print standard 3-of-9 bar codes on IBM or Epson graphics printers. Quikzip 1.2 Westcoast Software $49 prints the new Postnet Barcode and address on any size envelope, postcard or label. Not only will this help your mail get delivered faster, it can save you money on postage. Quikzip will read names and addresses from an ASCII file and translate the zip code to a bar code. Requires an Epson compatible printer. UPC-A Label Printer 1.4 (UPC) Matter, Robert J. $0 enables 9-pin Epson compatible printers to print UPC version A barcodes on standard mailing labels. You can scan input from an existing label, and double density printing is supported. ZipCode4 (ZIPCODE) Unikey Systems $15 prints zip and zip+4 postal codes on 24 pin printers that have Epson graphics emulation. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2168 -------------------------------- Bradford Contorer, Aaron $40 #7415/1281 prints files in very high quality in a large variety of fonts using the printer's graphics. It also allows you to give commands, either on the system command line or within your document, to control how your document will be printed. Bradford works with printers compatible with Epson MX and FX, IBM Graphics and Proprinter, and Star Gemini-10x printers. In addition to the large number of fonts that come on the disk, a utility is included with which you can create your own fonts. Fontastic IHS Systems $? #7415/1028 [2 disks] uses dot graphics on Epson and compatible printers to print text in numerous fonts and print sizes. For example, among the font files on the disk are Roman, Helvetica, caligraph, script, rotated, dark bold and others in sizes from 8 point to 24 point. Gunther Steinberg, Portolz Valley, CA, and Jakob Gysel-Jenni of Urdorf, Switzerland report that the manufacturers of Fontastic have moved and left no forwarding address nor phone. We know that Fontastic will not work on some newer models of printers, so we are considering removing it from the library. However, quite a few people get this disk and do not report problems, so we are unsure if they have it working or are just not complaining. CodeMaker 1.3 Quinbar, Kirk $54 #4978 prints barcodes on dot matrix and HP laser printers. The program supports barcode styles 3 of 9, Int 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN8, and EAN13. Predefined quantity of the same label or a quantity of labels can be printed based on a starting serial number. Serial numbers and other data can be saved to a disk. Four predefined label sizes are provided; customized labels may be added. DJR BarCode Database 2.5cl Ramsey, David J. $40 #12277 prints Code 39 barcodes on Epson compatible printers for a customer or parts database maintained by the program. Requires 540k RAM and 500+K disk space. Epson LQ Printer Utilities Argonaut Systems $25 #2889 is a set of utilities for Epson LQ 24-pin printers. LQGraph allows you to create a graphic logo. LQChar allows you to create font sets and/or single special characters. PrnLQ prints IBM extended ASCII characters. ENV prints addresses on business size envelopes. Requires EGA and a Mouse. (The authors are no longer at the address listed in the documentation.) F. Lee Newcombe, Seffner FL: "Two of these programs lock up machine after displaying the main menu." PsL: This program requires that your printer be turned on and your mouse loaded prior to executing the program. LQMatrix 4.41 Jimmy Paris Software ASP $20 each #1410 allows you to create, store, and download fonts on the Epson LQ family of 24-pin dot matrix printers. It also includes over fifty ready made and ready to use fonts including Script, Italics, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Large Type, Math symbols, OCR-A & B, and more. FX_Setup & PC-Font #7394/200 are Epson printer control programs and design character sets. ImagePrint Image Computer Systems $46 #7394/0657 [2 disks] allows controlling the printer by embedding controls in the file to be printed. Features include a menu from which fonts can be selected, the ability to print only selected pages, support for wide carriages, 25 fonts up to 34 points in size, 24-pin Epson (and compatible) printer support, and a screen preview mode. A text editor is included. LQ-Font Hardy, Dr. James K. $? #7394/659 consists of a font editor, 7 sample fonts for use with the Epson LQ-800/1000 printers, and a program to upload the fonts to the printer. LQ Fonts #7394/1270 is a collection of over 60 fonts for the Epson LQ800/1000 printers. All you have to do to load a font into the printer is type COPY <fontname> PRN. From then on, the printer will print everything in the requested font until you reset the printer, turn it off, or load a different font. While some of the fonts on the printout are hard to read, many of them looked pretty good to us. Ron Hockemeier, Flemington, NJ, likes the fonts and passes along the following tip: the LQ-1000 has a dipswitch in the back (switch #1-4) which controls buffer size. In the On position, you get a larger print buffer, but cannot download fonts to the machine, so to use LQ-FONTS, turn that switch off. NJLQP #719 is a relatively fast letter quality print program for Epson-compatible graphics printers. It uses a Roman Serif font and prints at about 17 cps on an 8088-based computer. On-Side Expressware Corporation ASP $20 #1340 is a sideways printing program you can use to print reports down the page instead of across, and in a variety of character font styles. All the font styles provided with ON-SIDE can be enlarged or magnified to stretch themselves vertically or horizontally, or both. By magnifying the fonts in all their various sizes and shapes, you have 175 different style/size combinations to choose from. With the accompanying font editor, you can modify any of the character's dot patterns or make your own fonts. Epson/IBM-Graphics compatible printer required. We noticed a problem running this program under DESQview. The program blanks the screen and locks up the computer, even when the /Bios option is selected on the command line. It works if you quit DV first. PC-Print #205 allows you to print in Spanish or German or various other fonts on Epson. Picture This (PTShare) Picture This Software, Inc. $? #1984 is a graphics and text label printing program for Epson/IBM compatible printers. Six fonts and several dozen graphics come with the program. It prints on standard 1" by 3.5" labels. CGA compatible video is required. PMS Label Hastings, Clint $5-$25 #1643 is a label maker program that lets you add Printmaster and Printshop graphics to your labels. This program is for Epson FX compatible printers only. Rubot Labels Botbyl, Dick $10 #1064 is a terrific utility for making disk directory labels for 3.5" disks. We happen to like all the cute start-up ASCII graphics and slick windowing and colors. 3x3 lets you store an 18-line label header on disk that can optionally be printed above the sorted list of file names. Dick put a nifty sample header (MYLOGO.TXT) on the disk with "P(s)L" in large letters created by ASCII graphics. The volume name of the disk (which you can override) appears on the very edge of the disk in small print and on the back of the disk in expanded print when the label is attached to the disk. You can make up to 99 copies of a label and, unlike Label Maker, you can process as many disks as you want without returning to DOS. "3x3" and "4x1.5" support multiple label sizes, better input editing and a reverse gear (ESC back one screen). Setup is available for printers unable to print the extended ASCII characters; direct support is built in for Epson RX, FX and LQ printers, including the ability to print colors with the LQ color option. Micro adjustment of the printer from the keyboard is also available. For those who want to cut keystrokes the label size and the disk drive choice can be entered on the command line. POCKET, which comes on the same disk, is really slick. It prints the disk and directory information on a 8.5" by 11" piece of paper in such a way that the paper can be folded to neatly hold a 3.5" disk. This allows you to identify the contents of a 3.5" disk without having to attach a label to it. SignSmif Smith, Bryan B. $? #1029 is a sign-printing program primarily designed to make single-page signs, transparencies, etc, using up to four fonts and dot graphics on Epson and compatible printers. Pascal source code is on the disk. The program was written for FX printers, but has been tested on (and works on) the Epson LQ series printers. Unikey Bar Codes Unikey Systems $0 #2733 is a set of Bar Code printing programs, five of which print code 39 bar codes on nine-pin Epson-compatible printers and one of which is for HP LaserJets. ]]]]]