Short: Epson Stylus Color IIs driver (bugfix) Author: alex@warp.demon.co.uk (Alex Tucker) Uploader: alex warp demon co uk (Alex Tucker) Type: text/print Architecture: m68k-amigaos Epson Stylus Color IIs printer driver (second beta test release) ------------------------------------- This driver should enable you to drive this printer upto its full resolution of 720dpi * (see later for some notes on this). Printer settings such as uni/bi-directional printing and economy mode are left upto the printer. An exception to this is MicroWeave for which there is no printer-cofigurable option. The density settings in preferences therefore correspond to the following options: Density Resolution MicroWeave 1 180x180 No 2 180x180 Yes 3 360x360 No 4 360x360 Yes 5 360x720 No (My printer doesn't support this, does yours?) 6 360x720 Yes 7 720x720 * Yes * Notes for 720dpi printing: ---------------------------- As far as I can gather, the Stylus IIs can *not* actually print 720dpi. Instead it achieves an effective dot placement resolution of upto 1/720th of an inch by printing two 360dpi rasters offset by 1/720th of an inch as in the following diagram: #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#. .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o # correspond to one 360dpi raster #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#. o correspond to another .o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o . is a gap Strictly speaking the dpi value is sqr(2)*360 or a bit over 500dpi along the diagonals. This means that exactly half of your image data is ignored when printing at these densities. Author's Address ---------------- email: alex@warp.demon.co.uk smail: Alex Tucker, "Strawberry Fields", Cliff Road, Skipsea, East Yorkshire. YO25 8TF UK Please send bugs/praise/suggestions/chocolate cake. If the driver really changes your life, you could always send a couple of quid/bucks/assorted change my way to go towards the cost of the £40 ESC/P reference manual :) Revision History ---------------- 21-May-96: Initial beta release. 29-May-96: Removed mungwall hit reported by Andrea Latina. Oops.