[Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was Re: Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

As long as we are talking about old computers using old printers :-)
anybody know of way to use an Apple Imagewriter on a COCO?

bill

> I would like to point out that as a dot on an ink jet printer is either
> on or off for each ink color.  A dumb printer is more likely to only use
> 3 or 4 bits per dot rather than 24 or 32.  Still at 600 dpi, this would
> be 10-12 MB per page but that is a whole lot less than 75-100 MB per page.
>
> As for Postscript printers without built-in fonts.  There is no such
> thing.  Now if there are encapsulated postscript printers (which I have
> never heard of) they wouldn't have to have built in fonts.
>
> When your CoCo was new how much were you willing to pay for a usable
> printer?  Convert that to today's dollars and you can get a printer that
> is not as dumb as a rock, is modern and has built in fonts that you can
> use with your modern computer too.
>
> The big problem I see driving modern printers with a CoCo is that serial
> and parallel printers are getting hard to come by.  Driving a USB
> printer from a CoCo even if it directly supported the same printer
> language as you were used to using seems the far larger issue to me.
>
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