Just a thought
There is a pallet of 28 Epson 850 printers on ebay - located in the
Portsmouth area. Trouble is auction ends in a few minutes - m,ight do a
deal off ebay.
It might be an idea to buy these and test them for resale to those who are
stuck with the original QL etc - the 850
David Tubbs writes:
20 years ago I paid £160 for a dot-matrix printer, last year
£35 for a colour jet. It is eminently good sense to minimise
the hardware and do the tricky stuff in software for the
machines in the current market.
I suspect most of the tricky stuff is done in ink! Thats
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 20:45:02, David Tubbs wrote:
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At 17:04 23/10/2004 +0100, you wrote:
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20 years ago I paid £160 for a dot-matrix printer, last year £35 for a
colour jet. It is eminently good sense to minimise the hardware and do
the tricky stuff in software for
At 21:08 27/10/2004 +0100, you wrote:
I paid £950 in 1986 for a top of the range wide carriage 24 pin dot
matrix (Brother 2024)
Ridiculous price of course, but it had the diablo codes I had coded in
Archive.
My little number was a Brother too.
It was, though, a very good buy as it is still working
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
So it looks like the chain of software is:
[snip]
4. A final 'driver' then takes care of the fine detail of sending
raster graphics to the printer itself, which will be different for
every printer.
Step 4 is possibly not needed if the Postscript interpreter such as
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For what it's worth, I found that the main problem with
Ghostscript, as ported to the Ql, was its size. With QPC and the
Q60 this is not a problem. I am now using it to print out
drawings - not pages of text - and am entirely happy with it.
The Postscript file is
On 20 Oct 2004 at 0:13, Roy wood wrote:
Well I was on a Florida beach and I did discuss printing (and had many
concepts about it - most of which were shot down in flames) but to
suggest I could be a leading light is a bit far fetched. All I can say
is that it needs a dedicated and unified
I thought I'd replied to this earlier but it doesn't seem to have
appeared from the list, so apologies if this is duplication.
First thing I need to ask is: with these Windows-only printers, what
is the printing mechanism? Do they take Postscript or some form of
raster graphics output (or is this
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
First thing I need to ask is: with these Windows-only printers, what
is the printing mechanism? Do they take Postscript or some form of
raster graphics output (or is this essentially the same thing)?
Those two are on completely different ends of the printer language
On 20 Oct 2004 at 23:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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Can I generate something like a Quill _lis file (oh, what is a Quill
_lis file)?
F3 - print, whole, to ram1_p.
This generates the file ram1_p_lis.
Not *too* difficult, I should think.
OK, am I able to use an Epson printer driver to create
Hi
I think about getting a new printer. My EPSON Color 880 has done great service
and used the famous ESC/P2 for QDOS, but seems to be worn out as it makes
unclear copies with undesired background lines despite automatic cleaning
etc. Finding a suitable printer to satisfy both QL(QPC) and PC is
Hi Ian,
Any suggestions about which colour
printer to choose?
Try to get an EPSON Stylus Color 900 or 980. They *DO* work.
They are fast. The ink is dead cheap.
Ebay is usually a good place to get them.
Jochen
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