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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: News: Epson Printer Driver
Message-ID: <8073@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 89 15:44:31 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA
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For those of you who already own an Epson printer (back from the days when
an IBM PC clone was all that you had :-), you may be interested in this
information.

According to the July issue of Byte magazine, Epson USA has announced a
Chooser-level driver for several of their printers.  If my memory is correct,
this includes the LQ500, LQ850, LQ1050, LQ1250, etc.

Cost was list at $69 for the software and a cable to connect the printer
to the Mac.  (The LQ500 required an additional serial interface board,
which cost more than the driver and cable.)

[ An aside:  I never realized that Epson printers were capable of serial
  output.  I thought that they only did parallel.  From this article, it
  seems that they can do serial as well (all except the LQ500).  If this
  is not correct, would someone please let me know? ]

-Michael

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