[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

iggybeans at comcast.net iggybeans at comcast.net
Fri Jan 10 07:15:15 EST 2014


>Modern printers have no character generator, fonts, scaling 
>capability, or *any* logic inside them. You cannot send text to them. 
>You cannot send PCL, PostScript , or anything that the CoCo might have 
>a chance in heaven of processing in some limited fashion. 

I don't know what "modern" printers you rely on, but there are plenty of PCL capable printers on the market. 
And starting at under $200 they are not out of my budget range. 
That is why I mentioned Postscript in the first place. 




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