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In article <1992Jul20.170052.19637@linus.mitre.org> hargrove@ramirez.mitre.org (Paul H. Hargrove) writes:
> I have recently compiled and installed Ghostscript 2.4.1 and am very
> pleased with it.  I do, however, have one question (with 2 parts).
> 
> part 1:
> I noticed in the comments in the b&w epson printer driver, that the
> ability of many/most of the epson 9-pin printers to do 216 dpi vertically
> by using fractional vertical feeds was not implemented.  I was wondering
> if there was an updated gdevepsn.c that could do this.  I am very pleased
> with the output on a laserjet, but find the 240x72 resolution of my
> epson printer to be less than ideal.  Even the 6 passes per line required
> to get 240x216 from my epson is faster than the 'floppy net' connection
> I have to a laserjet (i.e. write file to floppy and carry it to another
> machine to use the laserjet.  Now it is a walk across the hall, but when
> I return to school it will be 1/2 mile uphill and cost me $0.15/page.)
> 
> part 2:
> If such a driver does not exist, I may try to write one myself.  I took
> a look at the existing driver, and noticed that there is more to it than
> I had thought.  If I must write the driver myself, is there a guide I
> could get to writing one, or must I try 'vi gdev*.c' as my tutorial?
> 
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> Paul H. Hargrove, speaking for myself.
> 

Such a driver does exist, and as soon as I get off my butt and finish the
changes Peter asked me to make to it, he will include it in an official
update.  Hmm.. maybe I'll do that is weekend.

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