Re: Epson Stylus with Epson LQ drivers (Was: Question For Scott G)

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joko@crl6.crl.com (Joe Kohn) wrote:

>I was just looking at the Harmonie disk, and see that there are several
>different Epson LQ models that are supported by Harmonie. I then went to
>Epson's home page to see if I could learn anything about the LQ series, and
>see that both the LQ series, and the Stylus series, all support Epson's
>"ESC/P 2" langauage.
(snipped)
>As I looked at that, my jaw hit the floor.
>
>After all, with the HP printers that Harmonie supports, it's not so much
>that Harmonie supports a particular model of DeskJet, as much as it supports
>HP's PCL4 language.
>
>Naturally, my thought was that if Harmonie supports any HP printer with
>PCL4, then it's possible that IF Harmonie also supports Epson's ESC/P 2
>langauge, then it's also possible that the Harmonie drivers would work with
>any Epson that 'speaks' ESC/P 2.
>
>I just called Harmonie author Burger Bill, and he had no idea if the current 
>Harmonie Epson drivers would work with the Stylus. Likewise, I, as the 
>publisher of Harmonie, have no idea whether the Harmonie drivers will 
>work with a Stylus.

Although this question was meant for Scott G, I saw a similar question
about finding the right GEOS driver for the Epson Stylus on the C=
newsgroup, comp.sys.cbm.  Intrigued, I did a DejaNews search for
"Epson Stylus" and "ESC/P2".  I found tons of information....the short
-- you are right, ESC/P2 is the Epson graphics language that runs the
Epson LQ and Stylus series.  There seems to be MANY users of
MANY different computers using Epson LQ drivers to run the Stylus
printers.

I saw this from comp.sys.atari.st (Atari ST newsgroup)....

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Subject:      Re: Driver for Epson Stylus 400
From:         Maciek <macminer@polbox.com.munism>
Date:         1997/12/19
Message-ID:   <349AF671.A7A8B161@polbox.com>
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.atari.st

Hi,

If you could state what driver you need (NVDI? That's Write? First
Word+? Calamus?) it would be easier to help you. Basically, you need a
separate printer driver for each of these programs and you can use an
Epson LQ570, LQ800, LQ100 driver - the first one includes colour. I
think I have some Epson drivers for all of these programs - so if you
know what exactly you need, contact me. Or just browse in your disk
collection - you'll probably find Epson drivers together with your
programs, as really Epson is the most standard printer that exists.

-- 
Maciek

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Epson also has a book, the ESC/P2 book, that talks about all
Epson printers since 1980.  It says that the Stylus can use the
same drivers as the LQ, but the 8-pin FX driver won't work properly
with a Stylus or LQ.

I don't have a Stylus so I can't test it out myself.  If you perform
your test, please post the results.  Thanks!