Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Clueless about printers... (???)- 8-( Message-ID: <2305@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 05:30:32 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2305 Posted: Thu Jan 22 05:30:32 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Jan-87 22:34:42 EST References: <1323@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <4172@videovax.Tek.COM> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) Distribution: na Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 27 Keywords: EPSON MX80 FT Dot Matrix Printer In article <4172@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes: >You could use an MX-80 for text (choose the FX-80 printer selection in >Preferences), but couldn't print graphics. Sorry, but not true. The MX-80 did black&white graphics quite nicely, thank you. 218 dpi vertically by 17? horizontally, if I remember correctly. Of course, there were two versions of the MX-80; the original had scummy graphics, you could add the Graftrax option to get much better graphics. The MX-100 did had a slightly different graphics command set than the MX-80/Graftrax. This command set later became standard on the MX-80, and you couldn't get the Graftrax version anymore (a minor loose). So there are at least THREE different flavors of MX-80. All of them supported a "8 bit wide graphics slice" mode, similar to that found on the newer printers. The FX-80 has a graphics command set similar to the MX-80, but with some restrictions removed. If the "Epson" driver is for that, it'll give the MX-80 fits. You couldn't use that driver to do graphics. "There was something GROWING in your MX-80!"