[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:46 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> They want a printout only?  Not a printer too, right?
>

Just a printout. They will use it as prop.


> Bill
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 9:34 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> > I was thinking the same - NLQ might be good enough, assuming the thing
> > still works at all. An OfficeMax store-closing liquidation fated me a
> full
> > case of greenbar.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jameel Akari
> >
> > > On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > I was guessing that they would want wide carriage and impact printing,
> > depending on the time period. I got my proprinter xl out of mothballs as
> > well (the NLQ mode may be sufficient) , but the bigger challenge is
> finding
> > greenbar on short notice.
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:14 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I will dust off my Proprinter XL and work on it too if the details
> > include “dot-matrix is ok.”
> > >>
> > >> >From the context I’m guessing they’re really looking for that
> > band/chain printer look that a 1980s DMP doesn’t have.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Jameel Akari
> > >>
> > >> > On Feb 26, 2021, at 11:28 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Can you please send technical details of the printout?  Ascii file?
> > >> > Characters per line?  Is the printout file ready and all they need
> is
> > a
> > >> > print or does thenoutput need to be formatted first?
> > >> >
> > >> > I recall you said it was roughly a hundred or so total pages?
> > >> >
> > >> > Maybe someone near the museum can look for the two DECwriter III's
> > that
> > >> > might still be around the warehouse, or some other wide carriage
> > printer
> > >> > there.  If you put a new ribbon on one of those and attach to an old
> > pc
> > >> > running word perfect paginated to 132 character lines you could at
> > least
> > >> > try to print this at infoage.  I bet there is some green bar in the
> > >> > warehouse
> > >> >
> > >> > When the file and details are available I would be happy to at least
> > try to
> > >> > do of it too.
> > >> >
> > >> > Bill
> > >>
> >
>