Digital BW, The Print

I couldn't find anything. But what I did find, as I recall, was the control
codes that the Epson driver send to the printer when you request a clean.
It's one of those newest style two-way communication control-codes.

Basically, I got to a point where I was fed up searching through about 20
different manuals for xxx different printers - most with partial or
incorrect or outdated or just plain unhelpful 'information'. So although I
found the command, I still could not find documentation for it, and lack the
resources or time to actually persuade Epson that I could get on their
developer program (their dev site is ironic, in that it mentions there is
this thing you can sign up to to get the level 2 manuals... but doesn't tell
you how :)  One of the advantages with the disarray of the manuals is that I
am sure they give away information about certain control codes in certain
manuals that they really didn't mean to (in a Level 1 doco anyway)

Meanwhile... in the UK... all Epson tech support - after several calls and
emails - were denying that any such information could be made available
under any circumstances. Intriguing. Given that 'me giving them money' was a
scenario I had suggested ;)

All a very far cry from the days when my Epson LQ xxxxx was delivered with a
form inside to request a programming manual; it came within the week in a
very nice folder (and was free)

Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...]
> Sent: 05 October 2001 04:41
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Dithering
>
>
>
>
> > As someone who spent a little effort reverse-engineering the
> commands sent
> > by the Epson printer driver (perversely, not to find out how to
> > dither, but
> > how to send commands to the printer directly - was trying to
> figure out if
> > the clean cycle could be done on one print-head only. I think I
> found out
> > it's under firmware control :)
>
> Doesn't the Epson available printer command set documentation
> cover this?  I
> haven't looked, but am curious.
>
>