I was really happy to see that it could emulate a dot matrix. Somehow BASIC printouts don't feel right in 300dpi Courier.
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Russell Flowers <[email protected]> wrote: > "Look honey, I made my new printer a 30 year old printer!" > > Seriously, that does sound fun. :) > > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Ron Lauzon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, you could connect one to the M100 via the serial port. >> >> I've worked with these types of printers professionally (mostly the >> Paxar/Monarch/Avery and Zebra). Most of the newer ones are WiFi, but >> all still have some sort of serial connector. >> >> The problem with using these types of printers is that they are >> designed to be used as label printers. So you just can't treat them >> as a tty, dump some text to the printer and have it print. You have >> to send them special commands to define a label, define text fields, >> etc. then print the label. >> >> Also, most of those kinds of printers use thermal paper - which is >> more expensive (and kinda toxic). >> >> At my old company, they were getting rid of the old serial-only >> printers, so I picked one up and tried it out on my PC. It had very >> limited usefulness. >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:59 AM, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Would it be possible to use say one of those cheap compact thermal >> printers? >> > The ones with the two or three inch paper rolls? >> > >> > >> > >> > On 9 Feb 2018 4:14 a.m., "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> True story, after helping Ken test his implementation of the epson >> >> emulation I had lots of fun feeding the output through imagemagick to >> add >> >> enough distortion to make it look like even more like the real thing. >> >> >> >> http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_100_RAM_Dum >> p_One-Liners >> >> >> >> — John. >> >> >> >> -- >> Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org >> Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ >> Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ >> >> TRS-80 Pocket Computer 2 - TRS-80 Pocket Computer 4 - TRS-80 Model 100/102 >> Some people like to work on old cars. But old computers are cheaper >> and don't require a big garage. >> > >
