10 Nov
2012
10 Nov
'12
10:05 a.m.
On 10/11/12 5:39 AM, Roger Pugh wrote:
On 10/11/2012 01:15, allison wrote:
Yes, in the Mac world, some low end printers did the same thing.
--Toby
On 11/09/2012 07:50 PM, ben wrote:
There was a laserprinter available for i think the Atari ST (or later
model) that did away with the processor and and used the atari. This cut
the cost of the printer down to about 1000 pounds/dollars which was very
cheap in its time, esp when compared to the apple laser.. I think it was
a canon engine.
Well if you could access the toner drum directly from the host cpu, I
am sure you could emulate a generic mono-spaced printer like a TTY in
16K including the printer fonts.
Ben.
This idea was used in the "windows only" laser printers where the
ripping was done on the PC and the raw data sent to the printer via
parallel port.
Roger