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

[Theodore (Alex) Evans]

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.