Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote: >I use a Seiko DPU-414 thermal printer with my T102. It has both parallel >(Centronix) and serial (9 pin female D-sub) connections. It runs off 6v >external (same power barrel connector and polarity as the M100), and has >provisions for an internal rechargeable Ni-Cd type battery (4x AA cells).
>Got it off eBay a number of years ago as a "pull" from some sort of ATM >machine. They can still be found around the internet. It takes a 4-3/8" >thermal paper roll (available on Amazon), and is a nice size match to the >computer, if you want portability. I got about the same idea, except since I couldn't find one with a parallel interface I got a serial/BT one with the idea to use an Arduino Pro Mini to do the parallel to serial conversion. The big advantage being that since there is software running on the Arduino, I can do some interesting things like emulating the escape sequence of the most popular printers of the time, or the special characters of the M100. But it didn't work on my first try and I kind of lost interest... I'm still glad to see I'm not the only one coming with this idea. I may try to look into this Seiko DPU-414 someday since it seems to work out of the box ;o) Cheers, Eric
