Date   : Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:40:12 -0000
From   : BBCMailingList@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

This topic has brought back a lot of memories of my old daisy-wheel
printer (can't remember the make or model unfortunately) of 15 years
or so ago which did sterling work printing out reams of my GSCE coursework
all done on Inter-Word.  The text print quality was fantastic but it was
fairly slow and very noisy.  I used to have Inter-Word set to pause
after every page which very helpfully issues a VDU 7 bleep when it's
time to change the paper, so I could have the printer running upstairs
with the door shut and a speaker attached to my BBC Master via the
audio out socket placed on the landing at the top of the stairs.  I 
could hear the bleep when it was time to come back to change the
paper without having to listen to the printer clattering away for 5
minutes per page!

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Fardell [mailto:tim.fardell@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:15:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

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>

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