One issue that I noted yesterday messing with the paper- the track-feed area of the wide-green-bar is not perforated and does not come off like the 8.5x11 tractor feed I was used to. So any period authentic bound print-out, wether dot matrix or drum, would still have the tractor holes on it- so that would mean you'd have to have a wide-format laser printer that would accept the fan-fold paper. Maybe not impossible, but... at least as annoying as trying to hook up some vintage printers :) Also remind me to never get into a printer competition with Mike Loewen, those are some monster printers I saw on that page (for having at your house)... -andy
On Feb 28, 2021, at 8:53 AM, Bruce via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Fascinating reading about you guys jumping into the fray to deliver this greenbar printout. Congratulations!
FWIW, I have two or three old printers in my attic. I know at least one is a little (Epson?) dot matrix. No memory of the others, but one is a "large" desktop printer, similar in size (but not printhead) to an IBM Selectric typewriter. We're talking about printers that were run on IBM PC or clones back as far as the early '90's.
But my real reaction was: Why not fake it? Modern printers can routinely print 1200 dpi, so virtually any character set could be created -- including errors such as vertical offsets I believe someone mentioned. Greenbar paper might be a bit harder to fake, but if any color printers available in print centers can handle fan-fold, they could print the bars and the text simultaneously.
Bruce NJ
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:09 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Much thanks to Mike Loewen for being able to printout and ship the printouts to LA!
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