TABBY.PRN

TABBY.PRN

From Nick Higham’s note on Typewriter Art, referring to Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (with special computer program). Nick wrote the special program back in the early 1980s. What I did to get this output:

  • open Nick’s program in GW BASIC under Dosbox;
  • modify the program so it wrote the Epson FX printer codes to a file;
  • convert those codes to PostScript using epsonps;
  • convert it to PDF with ps2pdf.

Bob Neill’s art relies on being able to set a typewriter’s vertical advance to the same value as its horizontal one, and also being able to overprint lines to get darker results. The results are pretty good: tabby.pdf

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