Epson FX-850 Dot Matrix Printer Fonts

[Linda]

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.)
>
>   
If you have the manual you should be able to enter the escape sequences 
at the beginning of your document. If it doesn't work put the escape 
sequences in at the beginning of the document then use lpr -o raw to 
print this will send your text document directly to the printer. I 
haven't used an Epson printer for awhile but  Esc (ctrl v+Esc)1 was the 
reset on my old FX+ series printer. This sets everything to default 
which is  the Roman font. The other way to enter Escape  is \033 and 
then cat the file to another file. For instance \033-1 will become Esc-1 
when you cat it to a file This turns on the Underline.
              Good Luck
              Linda