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From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP
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Subject: Re: EPSON MX-80 UPGRADE
Message-ID: <170@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 08:58:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 08:58:31 1987
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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In article <2260@sfsup.UUCP> ndj@sfsup.UUCP (N.Justus) writes:
>I own and use an ancient (i.e. 4-5 year old) Epson MX80 printer.  
>A friend told me that there were some chip upgrades to upgrade
>this printer to an IBM graphics/Epson FX(?) series printer.  

I was in the same situation, and after about a year of hunting, I finally
came up with one of these upgrade chips.  Simply a matter of removing the
old one and plugging the new one in.  I paid about $150 CDN for it.

You'll pretty well have to get ahold of an Epson rep. and hassle him quite
a bit.  The stores seem pretty useless in finding one of these for you, since
it's not on any price lists these days.

This Graftrax chip gives you 'Epson with Graftrax' compatability, which isn't
quite the same as FX-80 compatibility, although most graphics programs should
work (most graphic programs have options for Epson/Graftrax anyway).  Some of
the FX graphics commands aren't supported (ESC * n).

I think there might be a more advanced version (graftrax plus) than the 
Graftrax chip I have, but I'm not sure.

Good luck,

-dalegass@dalcsug.uucp