Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL?? > > "Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò)" wrote: > > Besides that, in reality EVERY printer can work with the QL with the > > following workaround (that ha

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL?? Hi Phoebus, Thank for the detailed reply. That's one helluva lot of information to digest and I will need the time to do it. Geoff W

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Geoff Wicks wrote: > We have just buried our heads over the printer problem. Two years ago it was > obvious that the parallel interface was on its way out, but people are only > beginning to realise this now. What is the point of the Q60 if there will > soon be no printers for it. Now people are s

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)"
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:52:42 +0100, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geoff Wicks wrote: We have just buried our heads over the printer problem. Two years ago it was obvious that the parallel interface was on its way out, but people are only beginning to realise this now. What is the point

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: > Actually I believe the reason for non-involvment is that either they have > solved the problem or that they use QL software under QPC2 so even in that > case their problems are already solved in one way or another. Do not > forget that discussion in this list includes mos

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread Tony Firshman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 23:14:45, Tarquin Mills wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > Inkjets are the real problem, dot matrix printers are still made (why?), >they are 24 pin and not warnout. 1) easy carbon copies 2) Can sprocketed continuous paper I still use the dot matrix for printing label

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)"
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:14:45 +0100, Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: The following paragraph may be wrong.The hardware is easy, just use a parallel to USB converter. Parallel is faster than USB 1.1 and below. The problem is writing the USB stack, other USB writers

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
"Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò)" wrote: > I do not know how feasible that could be given the non-full implementation > of the ISA bus on the Qx0 but it is a possibility. Of course three sets of > drivers would be needed. One for the Cardbus adapter, one for the whatever > interface we would

Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??

2003-10-10 Thread "Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος)"
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:24:35 +0200, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò)" wrote: I do not know how feasible that could be given the non-full implementation of the ISA bus on the Qx0 but it is a possibility. Of course three sets of drivers would be needed