Epson_Setup - Control the text mode of your Epson dot matrix printer

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Description

Epson_Setup is a small utility for controlling text mode printing with an Epson dot matrix printer. You can choose

the printing quality (Draft/NLQ)
the font (Roman/Sans Serif)
the character width (10 cpi/12 cpi)

News

17/09/2003

Initial version released and web page set up.

Printers supported

The following printers are supported by the current version:

Epson LQ 300
Epson LX 800

If you find this tool to work with your printer please let me know so I can add it to the list.

Screenshot

License

This software is licensed under the GPL. It comes with no warranty.

Download

epson_setup-0.1.tar.gz

Installation and usage

You have to unpack and compile the software. You need gtk+-1.2, gtkmm-1.2 and libsigc++-1.0 installed. This software does not compile with gcc 3.4 or newer. You might have to edit the Makefile to suit your needs. Just do

tar xzvf epson_setup-0.1.tar.gz
cd epson_setup
vi Makefile
make 
make install

After that you can start the utility simply by invoking

epson_setup

As printing command you need to enter a command which sends the data untouched to the printer. On my system I use

lpr -Praw

for that purpose. raw is a printing queue which does not filter the data and passes it unchanged to the printer.

Feedback

Send comments, suggestions, critics to Markus Heinz.

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