Re: harmonie 2.0?????????

[90taobri@WAVE.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Seth D. Kadesh's lips:
> 
> but my bj-200 does epson (lq-510) emulation, so i'm interested in the
> epson drivers.  specifically, how much better are they compared to the
> apple epson drivers?

    Don't even bother with the standard Epson driver that comes with the
system software.  That barely gives you 9-pin capability.  Harmonie is
well worth the price.  The results (especially with greyscale images) is
indeed stunning.

> i can get 360 dpi, and i'd like to take advantage it.

    The Epson LQ driver in Harmonie will sort of give you 360 dpi.  I
say sort of because it doesn't know you're using a printer which can do
a true 360 dpi in one pass.  The Epson needs two passes to achieve full
resolution (like the ImageWriter II in NLQ mode).  The result is a very
wet paper and slightly better resolution than 180 dpi.  180 dpi mode
isn't too bad if you use paper that bleeds the ink a little to smooth
out the jaggies.  Bill Heineman is working on a real BJ-10ex driver for
the Harmonie package (should work with the BJ-200).  I don't when it
will be available.

> i'm going to be running this off of a parallel card (recommendations?)

    Any old parallel card should do, since the printer driver is the one
sending all the commands.  A friend gave me his ProGrappler which works
just fine with my BJ-10ex.  A used Grappler+ or Parallel Pro should work
just as well.

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