Needed: printer codes for a wide variety of printers

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From: Tom Swingle
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 14:45

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I am writing a graphics program and I would like to make one of the options be
printing a graphics screen to the printer.  In order to make this program able
to use as many different printers as possible, I would need to know the codes 
to send for various brands and models as well as the format to send the data to
the printer.  How would I go about finding this?  My printer is a Panasonic
KXP-1180 and at school we have Epson-FX80s and one or two IBM Proprinters so I
can get the codes for these, but I would like to get as many more as possible.

One possibility is to write to the manufacturers of the various printers, but
I don't know the names and addresses of all the various manufacturers, so if
anyone can help out here I would be very appreciative.  And if anyone has any
other suggestions, I would like to hear them also.  E-mail is best, because 
although I do read this newsgroup, I am known to miss the news for long 
periods of time so posts might expire before I get to read them.

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