Date   : Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:29:29 +1000
From   : "Bob Devries" <bdevries@...>
Subject: Re: Modern printers and Beebs

I've found that the cheapie Canon inkjet will respond to 'normal' ASCII 
characters quite well. I use a BJC255SP on my Tandy WP-3 quite successfully.

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Regards, Bob Devries. Dalby, Queensland, Australia.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk@...        >
To: <bbc-micro@...         >
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: Modern printers and Beebs


> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:19 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>> > Message-ID: <8EDD441C6BF344369701D06FF5B71EDC.MAI@...             >
>>
>> "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...             > wrote:
>> > Does anybody know if modern laser printers can generally be
>> > used with Beebs?
>>
>> Yes. A printer is a printer is a printer. Send the byte &41 to a
>> printer, and it will print "A" somewhere. I've been printing from
>> by Beeb with a Kyocera FS-600 for some years now.
>
> Generally true for laser printers - although you might need to send a
> certain sequence of charaters to drop the printer into some sort of
> 'raw' mode I suppose. As you say, there are some exceptions.
>
> I'm not sure if it's possible to get an inkjet any more which doesn't
> offload all the processing onto the host machine. Had that problem with
> driving an Epson printer from Linux, and naturally Epson are scumbags
> and don't make the protocol publicly available :(
>
> I'm not sure how you'd get a more modern system to look like a parallel
> printer from the beeb's point of view, but hooking a serial cable
> between beeb and modern machine is probably possible and printing from
> the beeb as though talking to a serial printer. The modern host just
> needs to assemble received characters into a page and then print using a
> standard print queue.
>
> cheers
>
> J.
>
>
>