Date   : Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:42:48 -0500
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

David Hunt wrote:
>> David Hunt wrote:
>>> I had an Epson LQ-800 on my Beeb, it's a nice printer, lovely NLQ.
>> <pedant>
>> Not NLQ - it is "true" Letter Quality (24-pin), not Near 
>> Letter Quality (9-pin, two-pass).
>> </pedant>
> 
> Yes, it had Letter Quality mode - it was rather good...

Although not true letter quality :)

> Does anyone here know of a HP DeskJet driver for a Beeb ?
> 
> I've got a DeskJet 1120c lying around that has a Centronics connector.

Hmm, are you sure they aren't from the modern generation of cheap printers 
which essentially assemble an image of the page on the host computer, before 
spitting out to the printer? (In other words the printer really has no smarts 
of its own)

I suppose one could hack together a cheap PC which used a parallel port as 
input and emuluted a Centronics connector, then translated "ASCII" data from 
the beeb to whatever the printer used.