DOS Support
If driver support for the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 is not
available from your software manufacturer, you can use one of
the other EPSON ESC/P 2 printer drivers. These drivers
don't provide all the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 features,
such as 720 or 1440 dpi printing. Choose the first printer
available from the following two lists:
Black printing only
• LQ-870/1170
• LQ-570(+)/1070(+)
• SQ-870/1070
• LQ-850
• LQ-500
Color and black printing
• EPSON Stylus PRO
• EPSON Stylus COLOR 500
• EPSON Stylus COLOR II
• LQ-860
• LQ-2550
Control Panel Settings
You can change the following default settings from the printer's
control panel:
Setting
Options
Print direction
Auto, Bi-D, Uni-D
Font
Courier, Roman, Sans Serif, Prestige,
Script, Roman T, Sans Serif H, Draft
Pitch
10 cpi, 12 cpi, 15 cpi, 17.1 cpi, 20 cpi,
Proportional
I/F mode
Auto, Parallel, Serial, Option
Auto I/F wait time
10 seconds, 30 seconds
Software
ESC/P 2, IBM X24E
Auto CR (IBM mode
Off, On
only)
AGM (IBM mode only)
Off, On
Character table
PC437, PC850, PC860, PC861, PC863,
PC865, Abicomp, BRASCII, Roman 8,
ISO Latin 1
International character
Italic U.S.A., Italic France, Italic
set for italic table
Germany, Italic U.K., Italic Denmark 1,
Italic Sweden, Italic Italy, Italic Spain 1
Auto line feed
Off, On
Network I/F mode
Off, On
Loading position
8.5 mm, 3 mm, Others
Economy
Off, On
Parallel I/F transfer rate
Fast, Normal
Changing control panel settings
Follow these steps to change the settings listed above:
1. Make sure the printer is turned off and has paper loaded.
2. Hold down the
X
Ppower button. The printer prints a summary of
instructions for changing settings and choosing a language
for the instructions.
3. Press the
color cleaning button to print a list of current
X
settings (indicated with arrows) and additional instructions.
4. After you make the changes you want, turn the printer off
to save the settings. The settings remain in effect until you
change them again.
Character Tables
All character tables except Italic are the same as the PC437
table for hex codes 00 through 7F. Additional characters are
available for hex codes 80 through FF. You can select the
following character tables through the control panel or
software commands:
• PC 437 (U.S./Standard Europe)
• PC850 (Multilingual)
• PC860 (Portuguese)
• PC861 (Icelandic)
• PC863 (Canadian-French)
• PC865 (Nordic)
• Abicomp
• BRASCII
• Roman 8
• ISO Latin 1
• Italic (no characters available for hex code 15)
International character sets
You can select a number of international character sets with
the control panel or the ESC R command. Other sets can only
be selected with the ESC R command. You can select
additional characters with the ESC ( ^ command.
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