Epson MX-80 Fonts (1980 Dot Matrix Printer)

Re:Epson MX-80 Fonts (1980 Dot Matrix Printer) by manosyja on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:39AM (#44970802)

I remember my Star LC-10 had multiple fonts with different widths. There was regular, condensed, wide and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). The latter looked like it had been written on a typewriter.

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Re:Epson MX-80 Fonts (1980 Dot Matrix Printer) by wiredfool on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:15AM (#44971798)

I had a Star SG-10, labeled as "Epson Compatible". (Mostly)

The Near Letter Quality was essentially double struck by making a second pass at a slight offset, with the corresponding increase in noise and print times.

There wasn't support for the printer in AppleWorks, so my first useful program was a BASIC thing that you could set the font in the printer and then reboot into AppleWorks to use either the 10 cpi, 12, 17(condensed) or the NLQ setting.

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Re:Epson MX-80 Fonts (1980 Dot Matrix Printer) by dole on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:15PM (#44974549)

Star Micronics Gemini-10X to Xetec Super Graphix interface card to C64. The bane of my existence seemed to get the sprockets synced and eventually started wrinkling the paper after a few pages.

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