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Robert Carnegie wrote:
> 
> "Ronald J Marchand" <rojomar@telocity.com> wrote in message news:<2NKr7.4427$Ko.2558035@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>...
> > Chip Webster <cwcomputer@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:3BAF5CB5.9C9AFC27@sc.rr.com...
> > > Have customer that purchased Epson C80. Curious if anyone has had
> > > experience with. Printer seems to have no carriage return & line feed.
> > > Unfortunately not on-site.
> > >
> > Could this be one of those wonderful printers that only prints
> > raster/graphics images? --- and requires MS-Windows and a printer driver to
> > function?
> 
> If it's Epson Stylus C80 then it has Esc/P2.  www.epson.com ,
> http://www.epson.co.uk/product/printers/inkjet/styc80/spec.htm
> Should therefore work with basic Epson drivers, AFAIK -
> Esc/P2 _is_ backward compatible, isn't it?
> 
> Esc/P Raster is graphics-only, MS-Windows only, but I presume,
> very possibly wrongly, that historic Epson FX-80 + colour format
> of data is used.  Esc/P Raster _and_ Esc/P2 is good enough for our
> FX-80 compatible software.
> 
> Sorry, no experience with.  But I think the days of DIP switches
> to control CR and LF behaviour of the printer are as much long
> gone for Epson as for everyone else.

http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?110698 gives a work-around script
for this sort of thing.



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