Digital BW, The Print

Hi Gus,

The limitation is going to be more than firmware, but mechanical.  The motor
only has so much resolution if it's a stepper, and if it uses encoders
(which it does I believe, on the 3000 for the paper advance at least), your
resolution is that of the encoder, period.  Firmware or special commands
can't override the mechanicals!

From what I understand, the only way to get 1440 is using "micro weave".  If
you want a copy of the ESC/P command set, you can get it from the Epson
developers site...but that's not all there is, as apparently there are more
undocumented commands, unless you're on NDA with Epson...but still, those
commands can't override the mechanical limits of the printer.

Regards,

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gus J Grubba [mailto:gus@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:32 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] At the risk of asking an old question...
>
>
> Austin,
>
> That's a good question. Is there a way to control an Epson printer other
> than through its ESC/P protocol? That would be the only way to do
> something like that. You can always create different dot patterns
> (dithering) but the spacing is pretty much defined by the printer's
> firmware (I would think).
>
> g
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:36 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] At the risk of asking an old question...
>
> John,
>
> > The piezo driver "drives" the Epson stepper motor in finer
> > increments as the Epson driver does.
>
> Do you know that is a fact?  I really don't believe it's true, though a
> "claim" was made that that the Piezo driver print 2160, not
> 1440...though no
> one has ever been able to explain how that actually does it, as it's
> beyond
> the mechanical limitations of the printer motors and encoders.
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>
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