Date   : Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:54:42 -0000
From   : dominic@... (BRAHMS)
Subject: BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hearne" <jim@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons


> 
> 
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>>> Message-ID: <000001c75f58$a41a0d40$4001a8c0@...>
>>>     
>>  
>> "John Terry" <blip@...> wrote:
>>   
>>> Another one being offered on Croydon Freecycle. Not sure about the
>>> compatibility.
>>>     
>>  
>> A printer is a printer is a printer.
>>  
>> 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.
> 
And some laser printers for Risc OS and I recall a funny single dot at
a time inkjet thingy we had at school that did lovely colour pictures
but took forever.

Dom