----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Kilgus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
> > "Phoebus R. Dokos (������ �. ������)" wrote: > > Besides that, in reality EVERY printer can work with the QL with the > > following workaround (that has been explained before by Marcel if I > > am not mistaken). > > Yes. But I have given up on the subject. IIRC the only comment to the > the German article I wrote about the subject was Geoff who wanted to > do an English translation. This appeared and the response was zero, > nada. Unfortunately this is only too true. At about the same time I wrote an article for the Quanta Magazine suggesting that the ultimate death of the QL would be because we could no longer use printers with it. This produced one reaction. IIRC about a year later Colin Baskett tried to raise the subject again, but this produced little reaction. We have just buried our heads over the printer problem. Two years ago it was obvious that the parallel interface was on its way out, but people are only beginning to realise this now. What is the point of the Q60 if there will soon be no printers for it. Now people are suggesting that we should turn to the second hand market (assuming that ribbons and cartridges for these ancient beasts remain available). Marcel has provided a solution to the printer problem for a large number of QL users, but instead we prefer to behave like a group of tramps rooting in dustbins for someone's discarded sandwiches. > I personally have zero need for SMSQ/E printing functionality anyway. > I think this is what will happen to me. I have already decided to do all my spreadsheets on a PC and it is only a little step further to do my word processing on a PC as well. Then I shall be using the QL for nothing more than my own programs and program development. Geoff Wicks http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/justwords.htm PS: I am having a little trouble displaying the new QL colours on my green monitor (sob). Can anyone help? (burst of laughter).
