Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Epson Ecotank
From:    Mike Powell
Date:    Sun Apr 05, 2026 14:52

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-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 > I had to do that once with my old XT.  Had the output going to the Star
 > NX1000 I had hooked up to it.  I still have that printer here somewhere. If
 > it was easy to get ribbons for I might find a use for it.

 pF> I always wanted one of those. I had a crappy Citizen printer that only
 pF> did bold and regular print, if I recall those Star printers had a
 pF> couple of fonts.

That was something I did not originally appreciate until I found a shareware
(or freeware?) program called NX1000.  Using that, and/or some control
characters in PC-WRITE, you could at leastchange your font size.  So if
you wanted something that looked like letterhead, with bold and bigger
letters, you could print it.  ;)

IIRC, you could also italicize text and probably use a different font.



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