Date   : Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:32:21 +0000
From   : jim@... (Jim Hearne)
Subject: BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>> Message-ID: <000001c75f58$a41a0d40$4001a8c0@...>
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> "John Terry" <blip@...> wrote:
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>> Another one being offered on Croydon Freecycle. Not sure about the
>> compatibility.
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> A printer is a printer is a printer.
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> As long as you can plug it into a Beeb, you can use it, ie, it
> must have either a serial or centronics interface.
>  
>   
Unless it's a "win printer" which used the windows driver software to do 
the data processing instead of the printer.
Not sure if there were ever any dot matrix printers like that but there 
were certainly centronics inkjets like it.

Jim