[Coco] Okidata ML 172 on my coco

[Frank Swygert]

The Oki may have some special graphics that other printers don't, but it should respond to the more or less standard Epson codes also. Nearly all printers emulated an Epson, won't hurt to try! Even the ProPrinter was a subset of Epson codes I think, maybe has a few extras of its own. 

Oki still makes a pin printer, so does Epson and Panasonic. Have to have them for multi-part forms, but many places are going to just printing several copies of a page on a laser. See http://www.superwarehouse.com/9_Pin_Dot_Matrix_Printers/c2b/2526
That Microline 186 is probably close enough to your 172 that the codes are the same -- you should be able to find a manual for the 186 since it's current production. 

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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:05:16 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

On Saturday 30 August 2008, George Ramsower wrote:

> >I can't find the manual on this ML 172 printer.
> >
> >What I'm loking for is the info on all the setup stuff to do the graphics,
> >varous text fonts and sizes and all that stuff. Even Okidata doesn't offer
> >this support today.
>
>   
> Most of those did the IBM Proprinter graphics quite well George, so you might 
> want to look that up and see if it works,
>
>   
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