Epson 1000 Reference Guide

3. Select Options.

Select Setup.

5. The Lotus prompt says “Enter setup string:.” Begin the string

with a backslash, and type the decimal values

corresponding to the command.

For example, to specify landscape orientation, you type the

following:

\027\038\108\049\079

The Word software package lets you modify Word’s printer

driver file, a file with the extension .PRD, to create your own

driver file. By modifying the printer driver file, you can

perform certain global functions: for example, remapping the

character table so that whenever you enter  & on the keyboard,

the printer prints ®.

Word’s 

manual describes

this  procedure in detail. Briefly, to modify the .PRD file, you

run a Word program called MAKEPRD. (The file

MAKEPRD.EXE must be in your directory.) The MAKEPRD

program converts  the .PRD file into an ASCII text file, and you

can type the new printer  control commands as text in this file.

When the text version of your  .PRD file is modified the way

you want it, you run  MAKEPRD again to convert the file back

into  a printer driver file.

Within the Microsoft Word program itself, you also can key in

command strings as text  and send them to the printer as long as

the command string is not  interrupted with Word formatting

codes.  For example, you could type the following line into a

text-only file and send it  to the printer with Microsoft Word:

ESC*c10A ESC*c1200B ESC*c0P