Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-09-01 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2011 07:35 PM, Tyler Leavitt wrote: > Thanks everybody for the responses what about if I can only find a USB > printer? Will [hid] work? if your printer reports as a hid device, then sure. there are plenty of buttons on a modern printer,

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-09-01 Thread Georg Bosch
Am 01.09.2011 um 00:54 schrieb Martin Peach: Yes I started out with a knockoff Apple][ and later I found an Apple printer with a serial (RS422) connection. After that I somehow acquired a Samsung dot-matrix which had the serial port feature. Then it was a question of finding the manuals whe

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-09-01 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-08-31 23:04, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Tyler Leavitt wrote: > >> I was curious if anybody has dabbled in controlling a printer through >> pd. I'm waiting for a cheap one to arrive at the local second-hand >> store, so whil

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Dan Wilcox wrote: How about this? http://www.amazon.com/Type-Male-Centronics-CN36-Printer/dp/B000I996M6 What does it appear as in the computer ? I bet that you can't use [comport] with that... you'll need [parallel_port] (or [parapin])... if you have the driver for LPT-

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Dan Wilcox
How about this? http://www.amazon.com/Type-Male-Centronics-CN36-Printer/dp/B000I996M6 On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Martin wrote: > >> For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection. > > I've never seen an old dot-matrix with a s

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Peach
On 2011-08-31 17:56, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Martin wrote: For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection. I've never seen an old dot-matrix with a serial connection. For use with the Color Computer, I had a DIN4 serial port (RS232) connected to a box

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Martin wrote: For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection. I've never seen an old dot-matrix with a serial connection. For use with the Color Computer, I had a DIN4 serial port (RS232) connected to a box that would reframe the data in 8-bit packets.

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Tyler Leavitt wrote: I was curious if anybody has dabbled in controlling a printer through pd. I'm waiting for a cheap one to arrive at the local second-hand store, so while I wait to attempt it myself I thought I'd ask the list

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Tyler Leavitt wrote: I was curious if anybody has dabbled in controlling a printer through pd. I'm waiting for a cheap one to arrive at the local second-hand store, so while I wait to attempt it myself I thought I'd ask the list. If using a Parallel Port (LPT) interface o

Re: [PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Martin
Well there are many kinds of printer, so the answer is 'maybe'. For me the best are the old dot-matrix with the serial connection. If you have that you can program the head to go wherever you like. Otherwise I just rip them open and keep only the rail mechanism and the stepper motor that drives

[PD] Controlling a Printer

2011-08-31 Thread Tyler Leavitt
Hello list, I was curious if anybody has dabbled in controlling a printer through pd. I'm waiting for a cheap one to arrive at the local second-hand store, so while I wait to attempt it myself I thought I'd ask the list. Specifically, I seek to control the location of the printer needle(?) that mo