Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need help with Epson printer command Message-ID: <13631@ncoast.ORG> Date: 9 May 89 02:30:53 GMT References: <7967@killer.Dallas.TX.US> <1293@optilink.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 26 As quoted from <1293@optilink.UUCP> by cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer): +--------------- | In article <7967@killer.Dallas.TX.US>, bobc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Calbridge) writes: | > Can anyone tell me how to properly use nine pin graphics on an Epson printer? | > My manual only gives the abreviated description of it. I had assumed that | > you enter the numbers in pairs with the lower byte coming first and the second | > byte representing the firing of the ninth pin. Didn't work. | | Nope. You can't get to the ninth pin. You can only use 8 pins in graphics | mode. The ninth pin is for underlining. Note that you will have to | change your line spacing so that you can resume graphics mode printing | directly under the 8 pins of data you have just printed. +--------------- I seem to remember the FX-286 allowing 9-pin graphics as described above -- except that only the low bit of the 2nd byte was used to describe the 9th pin, NOT the whole byte. Needless to say, this may be a FX-286-only feature.... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser