Re: Epson Printing

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Alain M. schreef:
> Has anyone pested the program "epsonps" with dosemu?

"tested" it you mean? Have you tested it yourself yet?

> It is suposed to convert Epson the printer output with control 
> codes and generate a Postscript file. This would be great for 
> compatibility, specily now that even Epson printers don't
> accept control chars anymore.

I haven't, but this approach is sound in principle. I do a similar
thing with the HP (PCL) control language.

My Brother printer (with its drivers) only understands
Postscript and pdf. I made an input filter (for lprng) that
changes PCL to pdf, using pcl2pdf, which is part of GhostPCL
(http://www.artifex.com/downloads/). I tell my DOS programs that
they are talking to an HP Laserjet. Pure "raw text" is first
changed into PCL by prepending a PCL initialisation string. This
works. DOS programs can print both text and graphics.

Maybe doing it with epsonps would be simpler.

Regards, Jan