> At 03:13 PM 9/4/99 -0400, John Aldrich wrote [in part]:
> >Hmm...Lovely. It looks like I may have to find the money for an
> >inkjet printer after all. :-( Oh, well.... Actually, I *have* an
> >inkjet printer (an HP Deskjet) just have no idea if it works and I
> >need a power supply for it.... kinda hate to buy a power supply if it
> >is broken... but I'm not sure how else to find out... :-)
>
> Before you give up ... what make and model of printer is it?
> You haven't
> said, and it may be that someone will know something specific
> about it. Even
> if not, you can still use it for straight text.
Most old IBM-compatible dot matrix printers will print graphics. I even
remember coding up control strings to make 'em do it. Escape G hex data or
something. So it's a matter of finding a linux graphics driver that will
send appropriate escape codes to an old dot matrix.
