[Coco] What do people want?

[Louis Ciotti]

Epson still sells a serial printers... wouldn't these work?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:10 PM, David Ladd <dladd at realmspire.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Dec 12, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:
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> > How does one print from a CoCo these days? I still have my DMP-13X
> printer, but I doubt the ribbons are any good after 20 years, and I haven't
> seen fanfold printer paper in ages. I didn't expect I would ever be able to
> use it again?
>
> There are some places that sell refurbished ribbons online.  Possibly
> see if you could get the raw ribbon and refurbish your own?
>
> >
> > ...which could mean a CoCo SERIAL to USB HOST adapter might be useful,
> where the adapter does all the translation to output modern USB printer
> codes. Hmmm, interesting idea. I have all the parts for this, and may take
> a look at adding it to my joystick interface.
>
> Well for those people using DW you can print through OS-9.  Problem is
> Aaron had asked, on the site for DriveWire, for help to create/write a
> full emulation for a printer(s) to stick into the DW server.
> So what I am guessing this routine would need to capture all of the
> print information.  Build a version of it in memory as it would show
> up on the real printer being emulated.  Then would need to send that
> in-memory image to the printer services on the host(PC OS) for
> printing.
>
> Not sure how easy that would be, but I guess could get a ROM dump from
> a most supported printer(s) and use those as a basis to create the
> emulation module(s)?
>
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