StylusIIs

Short:        Epson Stylus Color IIs driver (bugfix)
Author:       alex@warp.demon.co.uk (Alex Tucker)
Uploader:     alex warp demon co uk (Alex Tucker)
Type:         text/print
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Epson Stylus Color IIs printer driver (second beta test release)
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This driver should enable you to drive this printer upto its full resolution of
720dpi * (see later for some notes on this).

Printer settings such as uni/bi-directional printing and economy mode are left
upto the printer.  An exception to this is MicroWeave for which there is no
printer-cofigurable option.  The density settings in preferences therefore
correspond to the following options:

Density Resolution MicroWeave

  1      180x180     No
  2      180x180     Yes
  3      360x360     No
  4      360x360     Yes
  5      360x720     No  (My printer doesn't support this, does yours?)
  6      360x720     Yes
  7      720x720 *   Yes

* Notes for 720dpi printing:
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As far as I can gather, the Stylus IIs can *not* actually print 720dpi.  Instead
it achieves an effective dot placement resolution of upto 1/720th of an inch by
printing two 360dpi rasters offset by 1/720th of an inch as in the following
diagram:

            #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.
            .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o          #  correspond to one 360dpi raster
            #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.          o  correspond to another
            .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o          .  is a gap

Strictly speaking the dpi value is sqr(2)*360 or a bit over 500dpi along the
diagonals.  This means that exactly half of your image data is ignored when
printing at these densities.

Author's Address
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email: alex@warp.demon.co.uk
smail: Alex Tucker,
       "Strawberry Fields",
       Cliff Road,
       Skipsea,
       East Yorkshire.
       YO25 8TF
       UK

Please send bugs/praise/suggestions/chocolate cake.  If the driver really changes
your life, you could always send a couple of quid/bucks/assorted change my way to
go towards the cost of the £40 ESC/P reference manual :)

Revision History
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21-May-96: Initial beta release.

29-May-96: Removed mungwall hit reported by Andrea Latina.  Oops.