Epson FX-850 Dot Matrix Printer Fonts

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark at k-wbookworm.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 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.

Which CUPS driver did you choose?  I'm thinking the generic text only
printer would do what you want.

Alternatively, most of the dot matrix printers I remember would do
either Epson 9 pin or IBM proprinter mode - if one's not working you
could try the other.

Brian
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