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Program: Epson Stylus Colour 400/440/500 driver
Author: Peter Hutchison
Date: 10/1/99
Version: 1.4
Requirements: Any 1MB Amiga, WB 1.3 or better
Introduction
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This is my sixth driver to be released . This is a colour printer driver for
the 400 series of the Epson Stylus Colour printers. It should also work with
the older Stylus 500.
Important Note
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According to the brochure, the 400 is 'Designed exclusively for Windows using
Epson printer driver technology'. I have used ESC/P2 commands to drive this
printer but may not work in some cases or give unexpected results.
No details of emulation modes are listed.
Until Epson release further information, I cannot continue development of this driver.
TurboPrint 7 does support the 400 and you may achieve better results using that
system
Features
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Colour: CMYK (Colour AND Black)
Resolution: 180 to 1440 dpi (using Microdot).
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
Compiled with SAS C 6.58
Now includes version for 68000 and 68020.
Densities
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0 180 x 180
1 180 x 180
2 360 x 360
3 360 x 360
4 360 x 360
5 720 x 720
6 720 x 720
7 720 x 720
Paper: 10in for most sizes, 14in for US LEGAL
Recommend densities 0-4 for Word Processing output.
Supported Printers
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Epson Stylus II, 500. 400, 440.
Installation
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Use the Install_Driver script to install the drivers. For the Printer preferences
program set Single for Paper Type and DIN A4 for Paper Format and set lines to 62,
and margins to around 2 and 80. Select Save.
If updating from previous driver, please reboot to clear old driver from memory.
For PrinterGfx, select Floyd-Steinberg dithering, Integer scaling, Positive
Image, Horz. aspect and Colour. To save on ink use Threshold of around 5 and set
density to about 4.
If you are experiencing problems with this driver send me email (see below).
History
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1.0 First release (developed from 600 driver).
1.1 Removed ESC P command from end of gfx mode string.
1.2 Rewrote init strings. Used ESC! instead of a load of text formatting commands,
Removed ESC P command from render.c as well.
1.3 Removed ESC p 0 command from dospecial.c. Added missing comma in data.c
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