Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:45:34 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Modern printers and Beebs

Does anybody know if modern laser printers can generally be
used with Beebs?

I finally gave up with my trusty old OKI OL400ex after having to
feed all 21 pages of a document through the manual feeder and
got a new one, a Brother HL2040.

The good thing about the OKI was that I had been successfully
using it with my Beebs for the last four years, as it ran in HP
printer command language emulation mode, so I could just
send bold, underline etc. control codes to it.  The escape sequences
in PCL are a bit longer than the Epson codes but it works.

Unfortunately my nice new Brother printer doesn't seem to support
PCL so I can't use it from the Beeb.  If I try to print anything it
just chucks out a few dozen blank pages.

Can anybody help?

Maybe somebody out there works in a printer shop and can sneak
a Beeb into the office one Sunday and check out which ones work...

Best wishes,



Ian