Epson FX-850 Dot Matrix Printer Fonts

[Keith Clark]

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 18:33 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:03:27PM -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> > I am using an Epson FX-850 dot matrix printer and was wondering if there
> > is a way to print using the printers native fonts such as Draft, Roman
> > and such.
> > 
> > When I try to print from say the text editor, everything prints in
> > graphics mode and it prints extremely slowly.
> 
> a) Have you tried manually setting the printer to what you want.
> 
> b) IIRC from DOS days, those printers can be controlled by echoing
> Escape sequences directly to them. I've not done it on Linux, but it
> surely can be done. (I am not aware of a GUI tool.)
> 
> -- 
> Hal
> 

Yes, I've tried setting the printer manually via its control panel on
the printer itself and it does not seem to do much.  The printer driver
seems to print a graphical version of the text no matter the printer
setting.

Keith