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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Epson LQ-510 problem
Message-ID: <5775@holston.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 14:52:14 GMT
References: <1990Sep15.041022.27756@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk Inc.
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In article <1990Sep15.041022.27756@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>Okay.  This isn't a terminal, but it isn't a laser printer either.
>This is the closest group I could find since we don't seem to have
>comp.printers.
>
It's comp.periphs.printers I think.

>At any rate, the Epson LQ-510 has something called outline and shadow
>character styles which are selected with <ESC>q[1-3], for outline,
>shadow or both.  The problem is none of these commands do anything.
>Dump mode shows they get to the printer but they don't turn on the
>mode.
>
Ahhh...I thought I was the only one that has this problem with
Epson printers. It seems that my LQ-1050 behaves the same way and
also refuses to set the form length as well. 

Needless to say Epson will *not* sell me another printer for 
my Unix box. After many hours working on this problem and verifying
that the esc sequences are indeed reaching the printer, I have
come to the conclusion that this is indeed a bug.

If any further discussion is warranted please move to       
group mentioned above.

>I suspect something in my dip switch set-up may be causing the problem
>but I don't know and I don't even know where to start looking.  The
>manual has nothing to say on the subject.  Every other command I have

Another Epson shortcoming is their docs.

>tried seems to work except these.  Can anybody help?
>
Sorry, I can only empathize. Previous posts by me were fruitless.


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