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Program: Epson Stylus Colour 400/440/500 driver
Author: Peter Hutchison
Date: 13/2/99
Version: 1.7
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.
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 Color II, 500, 400, 440.
Installation
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If using TurboPrint or Studio, please disable them as this driver only works
with Workbench's printer.device.
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 66,
and margins to around 2 and 80. Select Save.
For PrinterGfx, select Floyd-Steinberg dithering, Integer scaling, Positive
Image, Horz. aspect and Colour and Ignore limits.
To save on ink use Threshold of around 3 and set density to about 4.
If you are experiencing problems with this driver send me email (see below).
The latest version can be downloaded from Aminet or my Web page below, it
also appears on Amiga Format's CD.
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
1.4 Updated init strings in Dospecial.c and Render.c
Added ESC! to render.c and replaced m & n with real values.
In Dospecial.c added ESCr0 to set colour to black.
1.5 In Render.c, changed margins to use 0 and 255 (max) instead of 1 and 80.
The 'P' could be coming from the Right margin command which is repeated
during a print esp in FW. Added LF to end of every graphics row.
Also added page lenght command to Render.c.
1.6 Combined init strings in Render.c. Removed extra LF at end of gfx row.
1.7 Removed left/right margin commands in Render.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