WP 4.1 and Epson LQ-570
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Folks, I just bought an EPSON LQ-570 printer. I have WP 4.1,A2500 etc. and
I have been trying with no luck printer cmds from WP. I need to select
different points for romans and serif ( 0-32 ) and the sequence is as
follows:
ESC X m n1 n2
27 88 1 64 0 ( this where given by Epson )
I gave this to WP:
<27><88><1><64><0> ( no luck all I get is '@" + my text )
I also tried this:
<27> <88> <1> <64> <0>
<27>X1640
<27>X<1><64><0>
and no luck. I called WP several times, and no help, they say that WP just
gets your input and gets dumped to the printer! , I am using a driver I DL
from here ( EpsonQ+.020 ) and does work fine I think.
Any clues !?!?
-Ed
Ed, sounds like the printer driver is trying to handle the escape sequence.
It sees the escape character, so figures a command is coming, sees the X,
doesn't recognize it as being part of a command, so lets the rest go to the
printer.
You need to use the Extended commands escape sequence: Esc[<n>"<x>
<n> is the number of characters following the quote character, and <x> is
the characters you want to send to the printer directly.
So, what you want to tell WP to send is:
<Esc>[5"<Esc><88><1><64><0> But WP won't understand that format, so this
would have to be:
<27><91><53><34><27><88><1><64><0>
or
<27>[5"<27>X<1><64><0> (This way is much clearer)
Also, be sure the `1' and `0' you are sending to the printer are not
supposed to be ascii `1' and `0' instead of the decimal values.
73, Kelly