🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8066@ingr.com>, kerl@ingr.com (Dan Kerl) writes:
> I have a 5 year old C.ITOH 8510 printer that works fine. However, it isn't
> compatable with the what DOS expects to see for a printer; ESC
> sequences different, characters 128-255 different, etc.
> [deleted]
> Any other suggestions for getting around this compatability problem
> would be most appreciated. Thanks.
> 

If you're really determined to keep using it, you'll find it easier to write
a filter programme than hacking the printer's ROM. In fact you may well find
almost anything is easier.
Modifying the founts isn't quite so bad - if you write youself a small
screen editor, you can step through the existing ones and modify where
needed. I did this once with a Brother 1109 (or was it 1209?) - it wasn't
much fun finding the base. Try searching for 7 0x00 bytes contiguously,
if you're lucky there'll only be a few, and one will be the start of the
space character bitmap.

Good luck, you'll need it!

Dave E.

(NB : I KNOW the brother has downloadable font capability, I had my reasons.)