ProForma Epson ESC/P2 Colour Drivers
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 11:20 am
Day 9 of the RWAP Software 30th Anniversary celebrations and we have decided to release our own ProForma Epson ESC/P2 Colour Drivers as public domain, for use with the ProWeSs ProForma system.
This provides up to 720dpi full colour printing to ESC/P2 compatible printers (or to a modern printer if you have QPCPrint on your PC), from within LineDesign and any other ProWeSs based programs.
As well as providing high-speed output in both monochrome and full colour mode, you can choose to print using 180dpi, 360dpi or 720dpi. There is also standard colour printing and a colour replacement driver for use with LineDesign.
More details appear on the SInclair QL Wiki
This was an interesting exercise at the time - it was actually my first foray into C programming (!) - I took the original Epson printer driver from Progs as a source and then re-wrote the C code to ignore blank lines and use TIFF binary compression to produce high speed printing; as well as adding the 720dpi mode.
It taught me a lot about Epson printers as well as C programming.
The drivers and full source codes are attached below (I will add them to the QL Homepage shortly). Also included is my attempt to program the 1440dpi mode - however, for some reason, I never managed to get this to work and can only assume that there was something different in how Epson printers handle this print mode.
This provides up to 720dpi full colour printing to ESC/P2 compatible printers (or to a modern printer if you have QPCPrint on your PC), from within LineDesign and any other ProWeSs based programs.
As well as providing high-speed output in both monochrome and full colour mode, you can choose to print using 180dpi, 360dpi or 720dpi. There is also standard colour printing and a colour replacement driver for use with LineDesign.
More details appear on the SInclair QL Wiki
This was an interesting exercise at the time - it was actually my first foray into C programming (!) - I took the original Epson printer driver from Progs as a source and then re-wrote the C code to ignore blank lines and use TIFF binary compression to produce high speed printing; as well as adding the 720dpi mode.
It taught me a lot about Epson printers as well as C programming.
The drivers and full source codes are attached below (I will add them to the QL Homepage shortly). Also included is my attempt to program the 1440dpi mode - however, for some reason, I never managed to get this to work and can only assume that there was something different in how Epson printers handle this print mode.
