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- A caution about the PANASONIC 24 Pin printers:
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- With the 24 pin Panasonic printer you will have to set it for the
- EPSON 2500 mode and make sure that you have added the extra
- memory chip to the printer (the "KX-P43 Buffer" at an extra
- cost!). Mr. Jim Sweeney of Laguna Beach, CA. writes:
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- "The Panasonic 24-pin printers are actually not that expensive to
- upgrade for downloadable characters. All that is required is a
- commonly available 256K SRAM (32Kx8, probably 200 ns or under). I
- bought a chip at a local swap meet for $9. It isn't immediately
- obvious how to open the printer up (it snaps together; the front
- panel comes off first) but once it's open an empty socket
- presents itself."
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- Purchasing the chip through a dealer can get the price up by
- about $60 so it is a good idea to try and 'do it yourself.'
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- If you try to download to the Panasonic without the extra memory
- chip you will get a lot of curious looking junk, formfeeds and
- dinging of bells. Since the printer has no place to store the
- font data it prints out exactly what it is getting from the font
- file.
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- [Jimmy Paris Software]
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