[Coco] Fanfold printer paper (for dot matrix)?

[Kenneth Schunk]

Fanfold paper shouldn't be a problem - most water treatment and the
like control systems use dot matrix alarm printers with fanfold paper.
I just put a couple of Epson dot matrix printers in last month on a
boiler control project. Ribbons for an old DMP132, on the other hand,
might be a bit tougher item to find.


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:57:50 -0700, alsplace at pobox.com
<alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> Er ... is fanfold printer paper even made any more?  If not, when did
> it go away?  I was still using my CoCo and MM/1 in 1995 when I moved to
> Iowa, and bought my first inkjet printer (that used single sheets of
> paper) within a few years after that, I think, so I guess it had to
> start happening around that time.
> 
> I'm going to guess my Tandy DMP132 (or whatever it is) dot matrix
> printer won't have any source for printer ribbons these days.
> 
> Perhaps another useful app would be a print server that would let you
> hook a CoCo up to a Mac or PC via bitbanger.  The CoCo could spit out
> raw ASCII and the "server" program would format it and spit it out to
> the laser or ink jet printer attached to the host PC/Mac.  It could
> also easily (I bet) emulate standard dot matrix printer formats.
> 
> What were the popular printer types that CoCo software supported?
> 
>      -- Allen
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