My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked
him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far
as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned
by centronics, and royalties must be paid, whereas USB can be adopted for
free - therefore an extra few pence profit in the cheaper range printers by
adopting USB only.
I have found it impossible to find a printer here with parallel for less
than about 200 euro.
Sad really, but there you go.
It seems the real problem will be connecting the printer to your QL
eventually - nevermind wether it works or not.
cheers,
Darren Branagh,
Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business,
Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 01-6798230 Fax: 01-6706813.
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> Prove me wrong but most of the "documents" would be a listing here
and
> a small letter there. These can be printed without a problem using
the
> small driver utilities we have for HP and Epson.
>
> Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities which we
> have, unless you have specific printers - most modern, low cost printers
> (eg 99% of the EPSON range) will only print graphics !! They do not
> recognise a string of plain ASCII text sent to them - this is why we are
> faced with the problem!
Exactly this is the problem - and even if some of them are able to
print plain ASCII - this still does not help people with t87 documents
etc ... we're NOT all using PC programs - my manuals are still printed
from text87, and again - the text87patch shows that I'm not the only
one having this problem.
Printing is one of the biggest problems, as far as I can gather from
customer emails and phone calls.
You cannot imagine how many people just go out and buy a printer,
and then wonder why QPC does not print anything anymore.
Well, it has been written many times in QL Today and in the newsgroup
etc. - but you just don't find a printer in the media stores anymore
which is useable for us...
There is also another problem: the interface. QPC prints,
fortunately, to printers connected via USB, parallel port and
serial port, PROVIDED they "understand" printing commands.
Well, have a look at current printers and you see the problem:
most of them come with USB only.
There are adaptors USB to parallel and USB to serial, but
the other way round...?
I guess that non-QPC users will soon have a second problem
in addition to the printer-language problem: how do I connect
a printer with USB to the Aurora or Q40/Q60?
Jochen
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