[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print
Jameel Akari
jakari at bithose.com
Sat Feb 27 18:42:36 UTC 2021
> On Feb 27, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Andrew Diller <dillera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone want to talk on discord about this? Who is actually doing it?
Send me an invite to the appropriate Discord, I don’t seem to have it anymore. (Maybe I left because it was idle?)
I will go test my Proprinter and see if it works. It’s been a long time since I’ve tried, and I know I have a second non-working one so hopefully I haven’t confused the two.
>
> I'm at InfoAge and we have greenbar, if needed I'll find a widecarrige printer and see if I can get it to print from a PC
Serial into a DECwriter if you can’t find a printer with a Centronics port. Oh, and a ribbon that isn’t fossilized. :/
> .
>
> Let me know if you are actually doing the print-out.
>
If my printer self-tests ok and I have a ribbon, I’ll fire up my test mule Linux PC that has a parallel port and give it a shot.
—
Jameel
> -andy
>
>> On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:45 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> They want a printout only? Not a printer too, right?
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>
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