	Inkjet printer Utils. ver. 0.21  19/03/2001
	(Hey, does anybody read this staff? ;)

 COPYRIGHTS

  This program is freeware and shipped AS IS. Author does not garantee
right work of this software, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

  This program cannot be used for commerce usage or be shipped with other
commercial software.

  All rights reserved.

Alexey Gankov, 2001


Introduction.
There are some utils that  available for inkjet printers from WinXX driver.
Why do I have no them under OS/2 ? (Well, one said that there is kind of
that utils for Lexmarks under OS/2. Maybe).
I grab that codes. Then find the same codes from Linux opensoureces. Epson
keeps silence and I think do not plan to help anybody. 
Well, HP driver is more strict. But I could get some codes from that.
It was taken from HP695C. The claibration is not complete. Occasionoly, it is
of another structure then EPSON.
 Well, you may get them for your printer also - no problem with this.
How? - mail me - I'll explain :) Why? I want to see the really interest for
this kind of utils.

Using.
Unpack zipped pzckage with pathes. Read this (see second line of this file).
Start program. It is vio but has nice color palette :)
Follow instructions. 
1. Printer must be on LPT1 - LPT3. You may changes port number using "1", "2",
 "3" keys according to port number.
2. Choose printer type with [PAGE UP], [PAGE DOWN] keys. Do not think of "USER"
printer type - it is for advanced future.
Program was tested only with usual print01.sys driver. Maybe it will work
with bidi (par1284.sys) driver but it looks so that there could be some 
problems with it. I was informed that it also works with printer on USB.
Surprise!

1. I use control codes from my printer and HP695c.
I am not sure it will work with yours. Try it. Mail me.
Enjoy!


History and Todo list.
1. Finish calibration part of utils. Need testers. DONE - 0.12
2. Setting of LPT port number. Does anyone need that ?  - Yes, - 0.2
3. Adding and testing more and more printers. Why not HP ?
						- Yes, first hp codes - 0.21
4. Getting inks status using par1284.sys bidi driver 
				- Bad, par1284 doesn't work.
Hey!!! Could anybody help me with DosRead from "PRN" device??? Parallel.pdr
could do that, but I do not know how. Solving of that will result in getting
ink status.
5. Getting ideas of HP way of calibration and implementing of it.
6. PM interface. - I think, I'll not deal with that. To low interest for this
program.


Contact.
Alexey Gankov,
admin@pilot-film.com
iron5@mail.ru

PS. The day after I upload this to hobbes.nmsu.edu, the Japan department
of IBM published EPSON drivers with clean head, nozzle check and so on.
Maybe, tomorrow, we'll get the same for HP :))))))
