| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I recently bought a NEC CP6 printer at Memory Location. They gave me a printer driver "nec_cp6" which does a good job on escape sequences translation and graphic rendering but which unfortunately doesn't work on some characters like accent alpha characters. In fact it seems that all characters codes higher than ASCII 128 are translated into some other lower value characters codes (most of them being blank). This is very ennoying as all my word processor applications won't print french (or other foreign languages) messages which I often use. Note that the NEC printer character set is different from the Amiga one. It supports both the Italic and IBM character sets. Does anyone have a NEC CP6 printer driver which would work (for example on the CLI you type a line of ALT H or ALT I after "copy * prt:" and get the right accent characters, or type them in the notepad and then print), or does anyone have the SOURCE CODE of the printer driver (or anything else which would help). Roland.
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| 629.1 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Mon Aug 03 1987 17:06 | 2 | |
I believe there is a printer driver editor out there somewhere.
I'm sure there is a commercial program and also a PD program.
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| 629.2 | HAZEL::MELLITZ | Mon Aug 03 1987 17:21 | 6 | ||
I've been thinking about getting a new printer. How do you like
the NEC? I've only seen samples from the P6. How well does
it do color and grey scales? How hard is it to get ribbons?
... Rich
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| 629.3 | The Printer is nice | SHIRE::REYMOND | Tue Aug 04 1987 09:11 | 7 | |
The printer is a good price performance one. The color printing
is quite good. It was recommended to me by Memory Location as the
best dot matrix printer for the Amiga. I suggest that you visit
them for a demo. The ribbons are supplied from them as well but
are quite expensive ($25 for the color ribbon).
One of the best feature of the printer is that it allows to load
a custom character set with your own fonts.
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| 629.4 | Emulation | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Mon Aug 31 1987 17:12 | 1 |
Is this a 24-pin printer? And, does it have Epson LQ1500 emulation? | |||||
| 629.5 | yes; yes; still none | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Mon Aug 31 1987 20:38 | 13 |
re: .4
According to the manual, it is a 24-pin printer with Epson LQ 1500
emulation. I've never heard of the Epson LQ 1500, but when I told
my Apple IIe that it was driving an Epson FX, it did italics,
underline, subscript, superscript, and several pitches correctly.
re: .0
I picked up the printer at Memory Location a week ago Saturday.
At that time they told me there was still no Preferences printer
support for it at full resolution (360 dpi).
John Sauter
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| 629.6 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Mon Aug 31 1987 20:42 | 6 | |
Check the LCA BBS in Norwood (get the number from directory assistance)
its the store number.
There is a P6 driver on it.
Also a HUGE collection of PD for the Amiga.
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