Printers for 520ST

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4 total messages Started by Frans Dorrestein Mon, 28 Oct 1985 09:58

#1351

Author: Frans Dorrestein
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1985 09:58

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A lot of aspects with respect to the Atari-520-ST have been discussed here,
but until now I haven't seen a word about suitable printers. Hence my question
to the net: 

	What printers do you, ST-owners, use with your ST?
	What are your experiences? 

Frans Dorrestein,
Digital Equipment BV,
Customer Software Development Units,
The Netherlands.
...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!ijsapl!dorrestein

Posted:	Mon 28-Oct-1985 10:58 Dutch Local Time (GMT + 1 hour)
To:	RHEA::DECWRL::"net.micro.atari"

Re: Printers for 520ST

#1362

Author: Mark Roddy
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1985 13:57

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> 
> 	What printers do you, ST-owners, use with your ST?
> 	What are your experiences? 
> 
I use an okidata 82 (modified to 92 compatibility,) but due to some
ill thought-out madness from DRI, the only printer that can be used
with the desktop is an Epson *x-80. (The print device driver is hard
wired for Epson use, the code is unavailable, there is no current way
around it.) 

If you don't want bit-mapped screen dumps, any of the standard micro
printers are just fine. The interface is slow however, and does not 
operate in the background.
-- 
						Mark Roddy
						Net working,
						Just reading the news.

					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)

Re: Printers for 520ST

#1363

Author: Rand Huntzinger
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1985 15:38

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I'm posting my reply since others may be interested.  I'm using a Panasonic
1091 printer with my Atari 520ST and am quite happy with it.  Both text and
graphics modes seem to work.  [That is, the print-screen function does
generate an image of the screen on the printer].  A very minor change in the
STWriter configuration was required, something like ESC-H => ESC-T, to turn
of superscript or subscript mode.  Other than that, most things seem to work
fine.

Also, an IBM-PC printer cable can be used to attach a parallel printer to the
ST.  That's easier than trying to figure out what works from the pinouts.

Re: Printers for 520ST

#1376

Author: Bill Jeffers
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1985 16:51

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I tried an olympia model np?? printer on the st and tried to screen dump. It 
sent one valid line of the screen and then three lines of garbage ,one valid 
three garbage .... So I went into the printer designation menu and set the
printer resolution to the lower setting and then tried to screen dump again.
Much to my surprise got a very nice screen dump complete with the bee. Does
this mean that the Olympia is mx-80 compatable or that screen dumps work with
more than just epson's ? I suspect that any mx-80 workalike will do screen
dumps.

note I tried to print with a non-functional printer and ended up hung where the
only way out was to reboot. read: could be trouble!

This was written from memory and could contain inaccuracies.
 
			
				Bill

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