Jaunty: How to install a USB printer? really <OT>

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 16 May 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 15 May 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
>> >On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 23:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> So don't blame it on kde4 style printers, its all of them AFAIK.  This
>> >> epson is nearly a decade old, and the Stylus Pro in front of it was the
>> >> same way in 1994.
>> >
>> >My old Teletype 43 and my NEC Spinwriter 5525 could print boxes of
>> >printer paper on one cartridge. I almost miss them!
>> >http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=287
>> >Can't find a pic of the Spinwriter!
>>
>> IIRC that TT-43 used a fabric cartridge ribbon and I know the Spinwriter
>> did.
>
>The film cartridges were for fine high quality print, which looked
>glossy and almost raised. IIRC that on the Spinwriter you had to set a
>toggle when using film as it was a once-through and would barely inch
>the ribbon along. You couldn't reuse it.
>
Same with the 1650-ro/Diablo, but if it had a switch, it was in the carriage 
somehow...

>Using the ribbon, it worked in an endless loop, until it just had no
>more ink left in it. Darn if I wouldn't like to have that old Spinwriter
>back, as it made beautiful print jobs using the film cartridge. Any one
>got one that still works?? I'll give it a home! Ric

And you will likely find that the film ribbons are just like the ones for the 
Diablo, they've been cooking in a mexican warehouse for 20+ years, and will 
shatter on the first character.  When being driven from the coco or my amiga, 
my driver program (pf) used a markup language of sorts, which knew about 
sub/superscript, underlining, and bold.  The daisy had the best font on it 
that I've ever seen from a printer until the 3rd generation of ink squirters 
finally looked better.  A std ascii wheel that you COULD tell the diff between 
an el and a 1.  The WP wheel was a pita cuz it swapped some of the WP stuff in 
place of lessor used characters.  Since I was using it for source code 
listings, the WP wheel managed to get lost 20 years ago.  I picked that thing 
up at a hamfest here in WV, probably 22-23 years ago, for a $25 dollar bill.

-- 
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