Date   : Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:47:57 -0000
From   : owner-bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: BBC Basic (86) for PC


> Does anyone know how to switch an inkjet printer on and off from within
BBC 
> Basic (86)?

> VDU2 and VDU3 work fine on my dot matrix printer but not on my HP720C.

For that matter, does anyone know anything about programming inkjets from
BBC basic with the VDU sequencies used with dot matrix printers? I wondered
if this was possible from !65host on RISC OS. Sadly, modern printers aren't
user programmable but surely they operate on the principle of strings of
codes that are sent to them?

CD

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