[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Serial Printing

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:01, Dave wrote:
>Can any dot matrix printer (i.e. Epson, Panasonic, etc) with a
> serial interface be used are are we limited to RS serial printers
> only for the CoCo?
>
>Cheers Dave
>
Most any old dmp can be used.  The one fly in the ointment is the 
treatment of cr's and lf's by the printer, which may require you send 
a configuration esc sequence to the printer, making it automaticly 
convert a simple cr to a cr lf combo.

Without the manual on the printer to tell you what that command 
sequence is, its going to be a lot of trial and error.  Strangely, 
not even all of the radio shack rebadged printers did this right.

OTOH, I've not had any great amount of trouble useing old daisy wheels 
on a coco, the ones I have Just Worked(TM).  Including the fastest 
daisy ever, the xerox 1650-ro.  And it came with a real ascii wheel, 
all metal.

-- 
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