I second the suggestion of using GhostScript. It's a host-based
Postscript interpreter. Postscript goes in, and out comes whatever you
want ... TIFF, JPG, PDF, HP/GL, or whatever else your dot matrix
printer understands.
Investigate it at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
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