Epson FX-850 Dot Matrix Printer Fonts

[Keith Clark]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:27 -0500, Linda wrote:
> 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
> 
Linda,

lpr -o raw
Worked wonderfully!  Thanks a bunch.

Keith