Program name: IMAGEPRINT Print Quality Enhancer, V1.20 Author name: Image Computer Systems Address: PO BOX 647 Avon, Connecticut 06001 Telephone Number: (203) 678-8771 Suggested Donation: For $20 registration fee you receive more fonts to vary your print style. Program Description: IMAGEPRINT is a program which allows you to produce high quality characters on your dot-matrix printer. With IMAGEPRINT you can print important letters, resumes, and documentation on your standard IBM Graphics Printer/Epson. There is no need to buy a daisy wheel printer, another parallel port, another cable. IMAGEPRINT runs as a standard applications program. Text input to IMAGEPRINT can come either directly from the keyboard (typewriter mode) or from a diskette file. The text input can contain embedded backslash ("\") commands, which select bold, underlining, proportional spacing, etc. Text can be formatted (left and right justification, margins, etc) with a word processor or by using IMAGEPRINT's built-in formatting capabilities. Whether you're working with an IBM Graphics Printer, an Epson printer, or a compatible printer, IMAGEPRINT allows you to print the IBM Graphics Printer's extended character set, which matches the IBM PC's character set, in letter quality. All of the mathematical symbols, national characters and graphics characters are included. IMAGEPRINT provides all of the standard IBM Graphics Printer character attributes like bold, double width, underline, and compressed. Additional features provided by IMAGEPRINT include italic, half-high, 12 characters per inch (cpi), true superscript and subscript, 6 or 8 lines per inch, Epson JX series printer color control and proportional character spacing. There are three IMAGEPRINT print qualities: Medium quality fast 3 pass printing. In this mode the print head moves at standard printer speed. The printing is more dotty than the other two modes, especially in the horizontal direction. This mode is useful for memos and reports that don't need top print quality, or for fast proofing. High quality 3 pass printing. In this mode the print head moves at one half standard printer speed. This is the default quality of IMAGEPRINT. The print quality is excellent and can be used for your important correspondence. High quality 6 pass printing. In this mode, the print head moves at one half standard printer speed. Use this mode for your most important letters, or if your printer ribbon is getting old. All font files on IMAGEPRINT diskettes have a five letter name: FONTx, where x is the number of the font. The distribution diskette contains 1 font: Cubic (FONT1). Registered users of IMAGEPRINT have a total of 5 typefaces: Cubic: Attractive well-proportioned font that works (FONT1) well at both 10 and 12 cpi. Small: The smallest font. A nice alternative (in (FONT6) proportional mode) to compressed (17.1 cpi). Hollow: Unusual font. Characters are very large, and (FONT7) the center is hollow. Best at 10 cpi. Like Block, it works well as a heading. Pica: Larger font than Cubic. Best at 10 cpi. (FONT8) Block: Heavy font, very thick. Useful for headings, (FONT9) emphasis. Stands out with bold attribute. If you only have the Cubic font, you can get a demonstration of the other IMAGEPRINT fonts by running "FONTDEMO" on the IMAGEPRINT diskette. FONTDEMO.BAT is a batch file that copies the data file F.DAT to LPT1:. There is a file called FTABLE.TXT on the IMAGEPRINT diskette, containing an ASCII character table. You can use it to print each of your IMAGEPRINT fonts for easy reference to character shapes or individual character codes. Edit FTABLE.TXT, changing the font name and the leading backslash command to select the desired font. Then use IMAGEPRINT to copy FTABLE.TXT to the printer. E.G. "IMP80 FTABLE.TXT". IMAGEPRINT recognizes "dot commands" that select left and right margins, text justification, even and odd page gutters, automatic centering, headers, footers, six and eight lines per inch and line spacing. Backslash commands, including double width, do not affect the formatting. See the Section "Formatting commands" for more details. IMAGEPRINT is compatible with any of the following dot- matrix printers: IBM Graphics Printer or compatibles IBM Proprinter (Set DIP sw 6 so becomes ) Epson FX series printers Epson RX series printers Epson LX series printers Epson JX series printers Future Epson printers (Epson has a policy of downward compatibility for its new printers) Epson compatible printers If in doubt about your printer's suitability, check that it recognizes the standard Epson ESC Z, ESC Y, and ESC 3 control codes and that its minimum line feed distance is 1/216 inches. The 1/216 inches line feed distance is important - some printers advertise as being Epson or IBM Graphics Printer compatible, but their minimum line feed distance may be greater. IMAGEPRINT works with printers connected to the parallel interface on ports LPT1:, LPT2:, or LPT3:. It will not work with serially interfaced printers. IMAGEPRINT works with the IBM PC, IBM PC XT, IBM PCjr, and any true compatibles, like the Compaq. It runs under PC-DOS or MS-DOS versions 1.1 and above.