Original Message from Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 24
Mar 2001 14:11:20 -0500
> Hi Robert
>
> If I send the code and print some text with Basic the colour is correct.
> However Text87 always
> prints black despite having sent the code from Basic. I guess T87 resets
> the printer or something like
> that. I do not see a way around that. Pity.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian Pizer, 49 ch. Machery, 1292 Chambesy, Geneva.
> e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel.41227581410
>
>
>
> >> I would like to be able to print Text87 documents in a chosen
> > colour. It
> >>should be possible to
> >> send an ESC/P2 code from BASIC to the EPSON Colour Printer before one
> asks
> >> T87 to print.
>
> >ESC/P2 code??? I've never used T87 and so don't know how it prints.
> >Assuming it prints ASCII as opposed to (raster) graphics (like windoze
> >does to emulate an inkjet/laser, etc), setting the colour on my STAR
> >LC24-200C colour printer uses:
>
> ><ESC>"r"colour
>
> ><ESC> - chr$(27)
> >"r" - lowercase r - chr$(114)
> >colour - 0 = Black, 1 = Red, 2 = Blue, 3 = Magenta, 4 = Yellow,
> 5 = Orange, 6 = Green
>
The answer here is to amend the entries in the driver. I am afraid I
cannot remember how to do this anymore except that it can be done. Doing
this you can amend the opening instructions so that you could send the
reset to the printer followed by the ESC/P2 colour instructions. This
should solve your problems but you might need to have several different
printer drivers each printing out in a different colour.
Regards,
Peter Fox
