BW>Does anybody have information on the Toshiba P351 printer?
BW>A technician friend just got several dozen of them dumped on
BW>him and he's looking for a W3.1 driver. I'd be interested in any
BW>other info people may have - experiences,etc... with this
BW>printer since they look like a pretty good deal -and the serial
BW>port has some interesting possibilities. Can anyone tell me
BW>what the 3rd,odd-looking, connector on these is?
I have one I use at work. Since I'm not -at- work, I'll tell you what I
know from memory. And we bought the machine, used, no documentation,
maybe three or four years ago. Was priced at $50 at the University of
Michigan's Property Disposition Office, where they sell their used
stuff. It's been extremely reliable, durable as all hell through
several years of rather heavy use. And we bought it from a University,
who doubtless also used it heavily.
Seems to me I found a Win 3.1 driver, albeit a rather limited one Been
a few years, though. The driver is very little beyond the basic Win 3.1
printer driver. I also tracked down a WordPerfect 5.1 DOS driver for
the thing. I seem to recall the little help screens that come with that
driver were a bit helpful.
Come to think of it, I believe I found the driver, and what little
documentation, on Compuserve. I could look again, but they've changed
so much around on CIS, I wonder if I could even find it again.
To use the serial port, you have to set the DIP switches, which I recall
are briefly described inside the lid. There's one switch that's serial/
parallel, a couple for baud rate, parity, stop bits... The latter,
naturally, don't do anything if you have parallel selected.
The printer has three native typefaces, draft, Courier & Elite. You can
select the font from the control panel, with escape codes (which I can
track down when I'm at work), or you can set the default font with the
dip switches inside the machine. I recall that the display shows H1 for
draft, H2 for Courier, and H3 for Elite.
The extra (kinda square) connector is as I recall a current-loop
connector. No idea how it's used; probably vital for use with some aged
mainframe somewhere.
I'll make a mental note to see if I still have the little text file I
-think- I found at the time. Anyway, the printer was common enough that
most DOS programs I've used with it -- WP 5.1 DOS, Lotus 123, a couple
others -- have built in drivers for the thing.
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