So, I was poking around in a rom dump from a printer, trying to see if I could find the fonts.

Yep, there they are.

It's super annoying that at some point EPSON went through and did an OCR reconstruction of all their old printer manuals.

There's a lot of places in them where the OCR software detected example printouts as text and replaced them with PDF text, making the examples basically useless.

First image is one where the OCR did ok and the example was preserved; second is an image where the OCR went horribly wrong, and the examples no longer show what they were intended to illustrate.

The EPSON LQ-570+ (1991) is from the period where we hit the peak of printer design.

24pin, max 360dpi, "whisper quiet" 46.5 db(A), well-documented ESC/P2 control language. And it's from the weird early 90s period which also gave us the "Jazz" Solo Cup design, just before electronics started getting curvy and bulbous.

And it won't complain if you use a 3rd party ribbon or re-ink a ribbon.

EPSON still has the brochure online for some reason: https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/lq570p/lq570psl.pdf

Reminder that advance polls for the Ontario provincial election are open until 8pm today. Not as many locations as the election day polls, but if the time works better for you today you should take advantage. The advance polls are usually quieter and less crowded, too.

https://voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/search?mode=postalCode then pick "voting early" in the selection menu at the top of the page.

While browsing aliexpress for weird computer power supply bits, as you do, I stumbled across this product.

That does not sound pleasant.