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- From: richard@op.ph.ic.ac.uk (Richard Syratt )
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- Subject: A Printer Question.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.133335.16460@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:33:35 GMT
- Sender: richard@star (Richard Syratt )
- Organization: Imperial College, London University
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- I've recently got hold of a really old 9 pin dot matrix printer, I'm
- having a bit of trouble setting it up though.
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- The printer is a Facit 4510. It's got a parallel and serial interface,
- I havn't had any luck with the serial interface, but the parallel
- interface sort of works.
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- With a solder bubble shifted so that the parallel port is expecting
- epsom timings (as opposed to centronics timings - is this right?) I can
- transmit characters to the printer, and, they do actually appear on the
- paper, but generally there's two of each. Sometimes three. Occasionally
- I'm lucky and just get the one character.
-
- The test page prints OK, so maybe things would print through the
- serial port. (Assuming there's a fault and it's between the parallel
- port and the input buffer).
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- Anyone had any experience with one of these beasts or some ideas on
- getting it working?
-
- Thanks
-
- Richard
-