DiscFerret disc analysers for sale!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Why? How would not having the printe sitting in the corner of the workshop (or whatever) increase your income? Alas not. This is a much smaller printer from another manufacturer. I suppsoe it's techncially a line printer in that the print head is the full width of the pwper and doens't move, but it doesn't produce characters in one go either. I case you're puizzled, it's an HP9866A thermal printer. The printhead has a row of 400 elements across the paper. It outputs the dot patterns for one fow of dots in all the characters of the line, the nmoves the paper up by one dot-line, then does the next row of dots, and so on. Actually, it's more complciated than that. To save on printhead connections and PSU loading, it acutally outputs the dots for one romw of characters 0,4,8,12,etc then the ons for 1,5,9,13, etc, then 2,6,10,14,.. and finally 3,7,11,15,... before moving the paper. The control system is a 32-state state machine with internactions between the possible next states and the condition to select between them. It's quite elegant. None of that tells me anything about the reliability... You knwo,m I'd actually quite like a Canon LBP10 or similar wet laser printer. But not enough to pay shipping on one :-) -tony