Date   : Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:30:47 -0000
From   : dm.hunt@... (David Hunt)
Subject: BBC compatible dot matrix printer with 2 ribbons

> "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
> > Does anyone here know of a HP DeskJet driver for a Beeb ?
>  
> Yes. OS 1.20. You send characters to it, it prints characters.
>  
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> J.G.Harston - jgh@... - mdfs.net/User/JGH 
> United Kingdom Tercentenary : 1707-2007 : http://yr300.org.uk

Yes, I'd figured that out (I mean, that was rather obvious!), but if you
read my later post I need more than just printing characters, I want to be
able to print graphics, colour graphics and text, change fonts etc. For
that, you need a driver. I found a PCL printer driver for View that gives
bold, italic and underline, I am still looking for something that would work
with AMX Pagemaker and AMX SuperArt. I'd rather avoid having to write a PC
app to decode the output of the Beeb and send it to a Windows printer, it
affects the purity of just having the Beeb on its own. The Epson emulation
is not provided as default by HP, you have to buy a cartridge (for those
printers that take feature cartridges 1120c doesn't) many other brands of
printer include Epson emulation though.

Cheers

Dave ;)