[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Jan 14, 2014 1:37 PM, "James Jones" <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > DriveWire provides the standard /P device in OS9.  Since it emulates a
> > printer that software already knows how to print to (epson fx80), this
> > means all OS9 software works unchanged.  There is no need to rewrite
> > anything for OS9 software, and it all works right now.
> >
> >
> I'm somewhat surprised by this. The Epson MX-80 and its descendants were
> certainly popular then, but to the best of my knowledge, printing anything
> other than plain old text was left to individual programs under OS-9, and
> if everybody agreed to use Epson escape codes I'm not aware of it.
>

I was under the impression that most programs understand the Epson codes,
but I really don't know details.  I always planned on adding other printer
emulations like the DMP series from RS but never found documentation on
them (or had the time).