Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveb
From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Okidata 292 Printer
Message-ID: <3342@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 14:24:04 GMT
References: <2551@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2551@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:
>I have the Okidata Microline 292 printer.. It has a 16 pin print
>head.  It produces marvelous graphics on my IBM in 16 pin mode,
>but unfortunatly the Commodore printer driver for the Okidata 292
>is set at 8 pins, thus producing HORRIBLE quality printouts. All
>it takes to put the printer into 16 pin mode is CHR$(27);"#B" but
>I have no way to keep it in that mode, because the driver automaticly
>switches it back to 8 pin mode.  I could have gotten an 8 pin
>printer for half the price, and I certainly want to get some use out
>of this thing!  
> 
> aaaaarggh
>
>
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	Hope is in the distant future!  The V1.3 printer driver
'Okidata_293I' drives both the 292 and 293 in 16-pin mode (b&w or color).
If I get a chance I'll convert it to a V1.2 driver and post it.  No promises
as I'm a busy guy.