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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Sep 29, 1999 8:21 pm Subject: Question About Epson Printers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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To: SignWriting List Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:38:58 -0400 From: Ronald H Dettloff Dear Valerie, I was wondering which Epson printers would work with SW so that I can look for some used ones for our SignBible project. Pastor Ronald & Judith Dettloff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Ron - I am posting my answer to the SignWriting List, since some people may have the same question... SignWriter 4.3 is an older piece of software, and back when we wrote the program, the world was different. At that time, Epson was world-famous for having "dot-matrix" printers ...remember those old printers?!... So in SignWriter 4.3, there is a place to "Setup" your printer. SignWriter 4.3 lists three printer choices: Epson Mode Hewlett Packard Mode Postscript Mode "Epson Mode" refers to "dot-matrix" mode. Today, Epson makes ALL kinds of wonderful printers, including ink jet printers and Postscript Laser Printers. But in SignWriter 4.3, the term Epson equals "dot-matrix". So...the real answer is this.... Laser "Postscript" printers work the best with SignWriter 4.3. You can buy an Epson Laser Printer, or any other brand name is fine too. But the first choice for smooth printing is a Postscript printer. That is "Postscript Mode". ColumnMaker, for example, MUST be used on a Laser Printer...so I strongly suggest a laser printer. Hewlett-Packard Laser Printers are not always Postscript printers, but they are fine too - they run on "Hewlett-Packard Mode". The third choice is any "dot-matrix" printer. But with a dot-matrix printer, you will not be able to print the 7 print formats, only one format is available in dot-matrix. So dot matrix printing with SignWriter 4.3 is very limited. And ink-jet printers are a weird "in-between" problem. Some of them work well, especially if they can emulate postscript. But not all of them do work with SignWriter. Why? Because ink jet printers were improved greatly in the past few years, and back when we designed SignWriter 4.3 they were not used as much as they are now - ... we did not spend a great deal of money developing special printer drivers for ink jet printers. So it is not a question of looking for an Epson printer...instead the question is...Is it a Laser printer or not? :-) I guess you need to read the manual before you buy any printer to make sure one of the three modes are supported... Good luck with choosing printers...and write again if you have questions or problems - Valerie ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite...Lessons Online https://www.SignWriting.org SignBankSite...Databases Online https://www.SignBank.org Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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