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- From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Looking for CBM 2023 printer driver info
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 22:44:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- In <4idcto$lkh@homer.alpha.net> croaker@bbs.tcbi.com (Bill) writes:
- >I have a friend who is looking for a printer driver for a Commodore
- >2023 (it says Epson 3110 on the inside.) I think he wants it for GEOS.
- >He got the printer for $10, but no driver software came with it. If
- >anyone knows where I can get a driver for it or any driver that will
- >work with, please let me know or post it here.
-
- We used to have a 202x printer in school. The only graphics capability
- that it had was one (you read it correctly, one) user-defined character
- (matrix 5 x 7 or so) per line. You programmed it by sending bytes
- to a special secondary address (6, I think but I could be wrong) and
- printing chr$(254). To print pictures, you do the following:
-
- 1. define a character that makes up one 5x7 area of the picture
- 2. print the correct number of spaces before it and then chr$(254)
- 3. print chr$(13+128) for a carriage return without line feed
- 4. go back to step 1 for the next 5x7 area.
-
- In a word... ssslllooowww. And tough on the head movement mechanism
- too, because it has to move the print head from left all the way to
- the right for each line printed, even for only a single character.
- In fact, older rom revisions even moved the head along the paper for
- empty lines.
-
- >Thanks, Bill
- -Olaf.
- --
- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl The only excuse
- \X/ for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. -O.W.
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