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Subject: Re: Clueless about printers...  (???)-  8-(
Message-ID: <43@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 11:15:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 11:15:54 1987
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Reply-To: afo@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Alan Davis)
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Keywords: EPSON MX80 FT Dot Matrix Printer
Summary: A little Epson history

In article <4172@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>The MX is a text-only printer.  The FX is text and graphics.  The JX is
> . . .
>You could use an MX-80 for text (choose the FX-80 printer selection in
>Preferences), but couldn't print graphics.
>
Uhh, excuse me Stever, but I have an MX100 and I have always been able
to print graphics.  The key here is that the MX series is text-only
unless the printer is equipped with GRAFTRAX(tm) ROMs which allow
graphics equal to the quality of their other printers.  As a matter of
fact, GRAFTRAX is included in all Epson printers now as standard
goodies. Also, most MX printers had GRAFTRAX installed also. They just
costed a little more.  The newer MX models had GRAFTRAX III installed.
This came out about a year before they released the RX series and
allowed italics, super/subscript, underlining and all of those other
neat little features we have grown to expect as standard.  Anyone who
has an MX but does not have GRAFTRAX can upgrade by installing the ROMs
(3 I believe) for ~$70.

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