[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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