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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Printer Driver
Message-ID: <6355@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 14:57:09 GMT
References: <5627@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> <6204@cbmvax.UUCP> <4375@enea.se>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4375@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>I have just ONE small problem: I have a Seikosha SL80IP printer
>which is said to be NEC P6 compatible. It prints nice graphic
>with the 1.3 NEC P6 printer driver. It's just that first it prints
>a zero! It must be something of the initializing sequence the
>printer doesn't recognize, but the all seven densities works fine.
>The first line gets shifted to the right buy that zero though.
>
	There is no V1.3 NEC P6 printer driver (not from Commodore).  If you
mean the V1.3 Nec_Pinwriter driver (with over 30 drivers I HAVE to be this
specific) then I may be able to help you.  Listed below are the escape
sequences that get sent to the printer before each graphic dump:

	00-01   \003P           set pitch (10 or 12 cpi)
	02-02   \022            set condensed fine (on or off)
	03-05   \033W\000       enlarge off
	06-08   \033ln          set left margin to n
	09-11   \033Qn          set right margin to n
	12-12   \015            carriage return
	13-15   \033U1          set uni-directional mode
	16-18   \033r0          black text
	19-20   \0330           8 lpi spacing

	Perhaps one of these sequences is not valid on your printer.  You might
be able to use NewZap to look for the sequence:

	"\033P\022\033W\000\033ln\033Qn\015\033U1\033r0\0330"

	and null out any codes which your printer does not understand.  I
should warn you though that the printer driver fills in fields 1, 2, 8, 11,
and 15 and will overwrite any value you put there.