RetroPrinter Support

For information Epson support got back to me about the programming details for ESC/P24-J84 line of printers. Initially they wanted me to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and warned the documentation was only available in Japanese. Obviously I could use an online translation tool. Weirdly, when asked...

Glad it works out of the box. Speed of Printing The speed of printing is limited by several factors: a) People are used to dot matrix printers starting to print as soon as any data is sent to the printer. However, modern printers expect a graphics image of the full rendered page, so we have to creat...

Ah yes, my apologies - one or two of the metal cable adaptors have proved to have a minor issue where the solder manages to bridge 2 pins. Unfortunately, they are home made - we do try to test them all before they are shipped

HI Defor - welcome to the forums. I have not come across the ESC/P24-J84 protocol before and wonder if there is a description of the control codes / programming reference guide for this? I should imagine that it will be mainly the same as the ESC/P2 protocol used on the later versions of the Epson i...

You can safely delete all files in the /home/pi/dada directory as they are all data captures apart from the manual !!

We have now started to create a series of How To guides to help people set up the Retro-Printer module for the first time.

They can be found on our RWAP Software channel on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@RwapsoftwareCoUk-RetroSite

Glad to hear you got it up and running. CUPS can (normally) be accessed using: https://retro-printer:631 (it does not always work for some reason). The security certificate warning is because we do not install a security certificate on the retro-printer (it would only need to be renewed every year a...

Hi Paul, You will indeedd need to use an eternet cable either from your PC or from your router to initially talk to the Retro-Printer and change the WiFi settings. Once you connect, use BitVise SSH Client to open a command console window on the Retro-Printer and enter the command: raspi-config This ...

We have made good progress with the emulation of this printer - currently we have a working MTLP + Epson emulation which is being tested by our customer. This printer also supports MTLP + PCL and MTLP + IBM ProPrinter modes but we have not implemented those yet, as they are not required for the cust...

Paul, I don't see how you can achieve it unfortunately - you could of course set the page_size to A5 which would have the effect of making the image bigger, but may be problematic when printing. The parameters in Art Studio will not help - Art Studio is peculiar in that when it talks of double densi...