(c) 1991 Wolf Faust Am Dorfgarten 10 W-6000 Frankfurt 50 Germany voice ++49-69-5486556 (GMT) Fido 2:243/43.5 (Wild Cat: ++49-6173-2544 HST,V.32bis) UUCP:cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!cbmger!venus!wfaust Author's request ---------------- The entire driver package may be noncommercially redistributed, provided that the package is always distributed in its complete form. Any kind of commercial distribution is strictly forbidden. The driver is licensed by Star Micronics Deutschland GmbH (Star) for distribution and may be copied/distributed by Star in any way. The author, Star and any other distributor takes no responsibility for the consequences of its use. You can allways get the latest version for free through the above given FIDO/UUCP addresses. You may feel free to use the driver without any charge. Anyway I ask you to register yourself. Simply send $10 to the address above and you get the latest driver and one update for free. There is much room left for further improvements, but without your support there may be no future revisions! So it's on you! Files you must get with this driver package: Star9Plus - Driver LiesMich - German Readme LiesMichZuerst - German Readme.first Readme - This textfile Readme.first - List of printers supported Install (+.info)- Install program with icon History ------- You can use the Kickstart 2 "Version" shellcommand to find out the revision of the driver by typing "Version Devs:Printers/Star9Plus" 13.08.91 Version 35 Rev 1 Description: ------------ This driver is intended for all those Star & Epson compatible dot matrix printers out there. The driver is up to 2000% faster compared to commo's EpsonX driver and supports more graphic modes (see below for additional features). Installation ------------ 1. Install and connect the printer as described in the printer manual. 2. Set the printer dip-switches as descibed below: Automatic line feed off Automatic carriage return off International charset USA Emulation Epson (standard) 3. Boot your Amiga with your normaly used system disk. 4. Insert the Canon driver disk and select the drawer of your printer. 5. Doubleclick the 'Install' program. The 'Install' program will copy the driver on your system disk. Sometimes there is no disk space free on the system disk and the install program will pop up a requester telling so. In this case free up some disk space on your system disk by deleting unused files. In case you are a CLI user, simply copy the driver into your "devs:printers" directory. 6. Now start preferences on your system disk (if you own Kickstart 2.0 use the 'Printer' preference program). Select the Star9Plus driver and adjust all other preference parameters to your environment. See your system manual for more information about the preference program. General Information about Star9Plus (9-pin Epson compatible) -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Dot matrix b&w/color printer (text and graphics). 2. Drives all Star&Epson compatible printers. 3. Linefeeds # of vertical dots printed. 4. Density XDPI YDPI XYDPI Comments 1 144 144 20736 plotter graphics 2 120 144 17280 double density 3 240 72 17280 quadruple density 4 120 216 25920 double density 5 240 144 34560 quadruple density 6 144 216 31104 double density 7 240 216 51840 quadruple density 5. A PaperSize of 'Wide Tractor' selects a maximum print width of 13.6 inches (for wide carriage printers). 6. A papertype of 'SINGLE' ejects the sheet with a formfeed after every dump. This enables Epsons sheet cutting feature. Formfeed after a graphic dump is send according to the SPECIAL_NOFORMFEED flag. 7. Users which previously used the Plus drivers might search for the ".020" turbo version of the driver. Thanks to special code done in this driver, the driver automaticly makes use of the improved features of 68020/30/40 processors. There is absolutly no more need for a "turbo" version of the driver, because everything is built in. During initialisation, the driver finds out wich type of processor is currently used. If it is run on an improved processer (i.e. 68020,68030 or 68040), it uses the optimised turbo routines. These routines take care of new instructions and performance increase by using the processor cache. 8. There is now support for selecting different typefaces. Due to the extended character translation table, the character set selection commands (aFNT0 - aFNT10) are no longer really needed. The following fonts are yet supported (some only with additional cartridges): aFNT Code Star Epson 0 - ESC(B - Courier - Roman 1 - ESC(R - SansSerif - Sans Serif 2 - ESC(K - - Courier 3 - ESC(A - - Prestige 4 - ESC(E - Script - Script 5 - ESC(H - - OCR-B 6 - ESC(Y - - OCR-A 7 - ESC(Z - Orator - Orator 8 - ESC(J - - Orator S 9 - ESC(6 - - 10 - ESC(C - - (PS: Excellence users watch out! These commands cause sleepless nights and much nice paper dumped ;-) 9. The driver now uses ESC-$ (abs. horiz. position) to advance the printerhead over white areas while doing graphic dumps. This results in a great speed improvement because less data must be send to the printer. Please note: this method might not be suitable to your printer and in case your printer "left justified" graphics -- english is not my native language, so don't call me names... --