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Article #191Re: Canon BJ610
From: Dave Pope
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <na.fab77a470d.a40080grahamep@argonet.co.uk>, Grahame Parish (grahamep@argonet.co.uk) writes:
>On the subject of the BJC610 - a recent Beebug flyer mailed with Risc User
>seeed to imply that it needs a bi-directional printer port. This doesn't
>sound right to me. Does anyone use the said printer with an older
>Archimedes, eg A400 series? I would like to buy one of these printers
>because I am impressed with the BJC600 we use at work, but it must work on
>an older machine if it is to be of any use.
>
>Cheers,
>Grahame.
>
Forgive my ignorance, but aren't all Centronics ports
bi-directional? How else can they handshake? And what about utils.
like Laplink?
Dave
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113320,b5a8a3c788c6a678 X-Google-Attributes: gid113320,public X-Google-Thread: f5f1b,132c97e14d7037df X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f1b,public X-Google-Thread: 10cbcb,132c97e14d7037df X-Google-Attributes: gid10cbcb,public From: dpope@assyst.win-uk.net (Dave Pope) Subject: Re: Canon BJ610 Date: 1996/09/16 Message-ID: <1379@assyst.win-uk.net> X-Deja-AN: 180862930 references: <ant1011150b0R%PL@xmm4.xra.le.ac.uk> <ant110946b49jwpJ@pprewett.ozemail.com.au> <19960913.144446.71@woodfrd.demon.co.uk> <na.6a6aa9470d.a50120quilljar@argonet.co.uk><na.fab77a470d.a40080grahamep@argonet.co.uk> reply-to: dpope@assyst.win-uk.net (Dave Pope) newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps,argonet.acorn.voyager,uk.education.schools-it