I got a Canon BJC-80, mostly because heads and ink are available, and I could have decent inkjet printouts with dot matrix behaviour, because it emulates the Epson LQ-2550.
I don't intend to use any drivers for the printer, I plan to control it from my own programs using the Epson ESC/P codes for the LQ-2550.
I went ahead and bought a long roll of Telex paper, 214mm wide, mounted it on low friction bearings, which allow it to feed easily, and indeed I can make a relatively long printout on the BJC-80 using ESC/P codes with this setup, but after almost exactly the length of 2 A4 pages it just stops, and performs the equivalent of a form feed, which causes an error, because it cannot find the end of the paper. It is actually set up for A4 paper, I can see that when I print out the current printer information.
I am currently working in ESC K/L/Y/Z modes, so MONO 8 pin bit graphics only being used, therefore I assume it is printing at around 60 dpi vertically.
I wrote the program myself, and have tested it on a Brother HR-5, and it will make a long print all day, so I have no reason to believe that my code is actually sending a FF command.
Any ideas on what is causing it to give up at that point, or how to get it to continue? Could the LQ-2550 handle continuous paper?
I don't intend to use any drivers for the printer, I plan to control it from my own programs using the Epson ESC/P codes for the LQ-2550.
I went ahead and bought a long roll of Telex paper, 214mm wide, mounted it on low friction bearings, which allow it to feed easily, and indeed I can make a relatively long printout on the BJC-80 using ESC/P codes with this setup, but after almost exactly the length of 2 A4 pages it just stops, and performs the equivalent of a form feed, which causes an error, because it cannot find the end of the paper. It is actually set up for A4 paper, I can see that when I print out the current printer information.
I am currently working in ESC K/L/Y/Z modes, so MONO 8 pin bit graphics only being used, therefore I assume it is printing at around 60 dpi vertically.
I wrote the program myself, and have tested it on a Brother HR-5, and it will make a long print all day, so I have no reason to believe that my code is actually sending a FF command.
Any ideas on what is causing it to give up at that point, or how to get it to continue? Could the LQ-2550 handle continuous paper?