Printers supported by PDumperEI

Created 26.11.2003 T. Milius
Changed 02.10.2004 T. Milius


Available PDFs

For the following printers there is a PDF availabe for usage with PDumperEI in the moment.

Manufacturer Type Description How to get it Developed by
RISC OS Sprite

All Sprites are using 180/180 dpi resolution. Available graphic modes are:

  • Dithered Black/White (1 Bit)
  • Dithered colour (4 Bit)
  • Dithered colour (8 Bit)
  • Dithered Grey (2 Bit)
  • Dithered Grey (4 Bit)
  • Dithered Grey (8 Bit)
  • Direct (32 Bit)

Used calibrations:

  • 0 - Black/White
  • 1 - 4 Greys
  • 2 - 16 Greys
  • 3 - 256 Greys
  • 4 - 16 Colours
  • 5 - 256 Colours
Supplied with the dumper Thomas Milius
EPSON Stylus Color 480 Use Stylus Color 580 driver
EPSON Stylus Color 580

Available graphic modes:

  • 120/360 dpi 4 colour mode (15 nozzles)
  • 360/360 dpi 4 colour mode (15 nozzles)
  • 120/360 dpi Grey mode (48 nozzles)
  • 360/360 dpi Grey mode (48 nozzles)
  • 360/360 dpi colour dithered Sprite output for preview purposes
  • Page size mode

Used calibrations:

  • 0 - Colour normal paper
  • 1 - Colour photo paper
  • 2 - Grey normal paper
  • 3 - Grey photo paper

Available Text modes:

  • No highlights

Pattern translation not implemented. The text mode of the Stylus Colour 580 is very poor. Colours/Italic/Bold/Different letter sizes etc. are not available.

Supplied with the dumper Thomas Milius
EPSON C20 Use Stylus Color 580 driver
EPSON C40 Use Stylus Color 580 driver
EPSON Stylus Photo Use Stylus Photo 700 driver
EPSON Stylus Photo EX Use Stylus Photo 700 driver. Add large page sizes.
EPSON Stylus Photo 700

Available graphic modes:

  • 360/360 dpi 6 colour mode (24 nozzles)
  • 360/360 dpi Grey (24 nozzles)
  • 360/360 dpi colour dithered Sprite output for preview purposes
  • Page size mode

Used calibrations:

  • 0 - Colour normal paper
  • 1 - Colour photo paper
  • 2 - Grey normal paper
  • 3 - Grey photo paper

Available Text modes:

  • No highlights
  • Draft highlights
  • NLQ highlights

Pattern translation implemented.

Supplied with the dumper Thomas Milius
EPSON Stylus Photo 870
  • 15 nozzles 6 colour mode.
  • 15 nozzles Black mode.
  • 360/360 dpi colour dithered Sprite output for preview purposes
  • ???
Supplied with the dumper Martin Hodgson

Hints

Only drivers which has been checked on the according printer are provided as PDF/calibration file with own name of the printer. For all other printers which may work with an existing driver but which has hasn't been checked in pratice there is entry with a link to an existing driver.

Feel free to try an arbitrary driver for your printer. If it is successful please contact me so that I can update the list accordingly.

Workarounds

Technical development "proceeds". So things which have been easy in the good old times are becoming complicated today. A good example is the printing of pure text characters. In "good" old times only printing of text character in one size and one font was the only possibility of printing. Opposite to this today there are some printers which are only supporting graphics.

If you are proud owner of such a printer model and need to print some texts you can help yourself with some tools. You can use text to PDF converters to convert your text file temporarily into a PDF file (Attention: the Adobe graphics format is meant) which afterwards can be printed in graphics mode. Converting is done quickly and the printing will lead to acceptable results too because usually only black and white is used.