[Info-vax] DCPS V2.7 and Brother printers

Dennis Boone drb at ihatespam.msu.edu
Tue Mar 26 08:03:38 EDT 2019


 > Dot graphices eh?  I suppose you could print those ascii Playboy bunnies
 > on one - that should use about six of the petals on the printwheel, I expect
 > that you could wear out a printwheel pretty fast doing graphics but most
 > of the printwheel would still be brand new.

Just like the line printer bands and chains always used to have
mashed-flat asterisks from printing all the banner pages.  :)

It's called HyPLOT, and lets you put arbitrary characters at arbitrary
locations on the page, with a resolution of 1/120" horizontally and
1/48" vertically.

PDF page 77 here has an example:

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/diablo/printer/630/90440-00A_Diablo_630_630ECS_API_Interface_Prelim_Dec82.pdf

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