Re: Epson DFX 8500

Hi Rich,

In order to make this work, I believe there is a
printer hardware pre-requisite. The printer typically
must have an automatic paper cutting feature
installed. The purpose of the cutter is to burst
continuous forms paper so that it can be retracted
from the printer when you want to change to the other
tractor.

If this feature is installed, you can place the Epson
ESC/P2 printer control commands for the back and the
bottom tractors into the input tray parameters in the
WSCST. Selecting a source drawer in the printer file
will then determine which tractor feed will be
activated at the printer to process the spool file.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC

E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxxx

>date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:18:15 -0500
>from: Rich Duzenbury
><rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Epson DFX 8500
>
>Hi all,
>
>I've got a customer with an Epson DFX 8500 installed.
 >Though this printer is a dot-matrix type printer, it
>can be loaded with two types of paper.   One in each
>'form tractor'.
>
>Customer is asking me to send spools to the printer
>and have it automatically select the proper form
>tractor.
>
>According to the archives and IBM, the MFRTYPMDL to
>use for this device is *EPDFX8000.  I did a RTVWSCST
>and didn't see any special bits for
>selecting the proper 'bin', 'drawer' or 'tractor'.
>
>Has anyone managed to make such a printer select the
>proper form tractor?  If so, how?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Regards,
>Rich


                
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