Re: Epson DFX 8500

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 12:23 -0700, Paul Tykodi wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Paul!

I don't know what the control codes are, though I've been doing some
googling.  Do you have a pointer to any appropriate reference material
for figuring out the printer commands.  Also, I'm a bit light on
understanding how to add to the WSCST's!

Thanks.

> 
> HTH
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> /Paul
> --
> 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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