All but one of my computers have parallel ports (the advantage of buying HP Enterprise machines off-lease) - I'm just trying to find a reasonbly priced Dot Matrix printer :^)
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > > This question interests me too, as I just bought a new HL-5470DW printer > > today to replace a Canon that provided no emulation of any kind. The new > > provides Epson FX, IBM Proprinter and PCL6 emulations in addition to > > Brother's own language, but neither parallel port nor serial port > > Quite multilingual :-) > > > connectivity. In Linux I'll be using it via IP, but it would be nice to > be > > able to use it directly from a DOS boot somehow to print old WP and > > spreadsheet files with embedded Epson FX printer control codes. > > I can only guess that there are network printer drivers or at least > netcat for DOS. In some cases, you can also use a browser to config > printers which provide a web interface, sometimes also allowing to > upload and print files. I guess IPP is a popular print protocol now. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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