2 Dec
2001
2 Dec
'01
3:41 p.m.
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
That is entirely correct!
The Jlaser was the most widely sold board that provided that interface.
They also made a tiny board to go into a LaserJet that would switch it in
and out of the system under software control!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Eventually, he
found the application for it. He marketed a laser printer
controller, that bypassed the 256K, text only, controller of the HP
LaserJet, etc, and created complete bitmap images in RAM (on his board) in
the PC, and dumped them straight into the printer engine.
Sounds like it worked
with a Canon CX-VDO printer.
This is a Canon CX engine with no internal formatter (controller) board.
It still has the DC controller -- the little microcontroller board for the
mechanics, but the interface is very low level. Essentially you have :