[Coco] Coco to parallel printer

[J.P. Samson]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Tim Fadden wrote:
> Well, you got me wondering, so I hooked up my coco3 to my Brother  
> HL-1850 laser printer, parallel port, and it works like a champ!   
> text any how.
> Will have to see if it will emulate an epson printer, then I can do  
> graphics to.  I used to have a laser printer that emulated an epson,  
> and it worked with os9, cocomax, max10 etc just dandy.

I certainly would be curious to find out.  I have an HL-1870N (step-up  
model from yours) that has a parallel port, and it too claims Epson  
compatibility in the specs.  I bought it many years ago to use for my  
Mac, but even with 144MB of internal memory, it chokes on printing  
documents with graphics (taking an hour per page or erroring out).   
Absolutely useless.  But maybe it'll work great as a CoCo text printer!

-- JP