On December 2, Tony Duell wrote:
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 :
I thought that was called an LBP-CX. That was a long time ago,
though, so I don't really trust my memory...
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL