[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Andrew Diller]

Most of the printers at VCF are daisy wheel. So far none of the dot matrix work. 

I don’t think we can print from VCF. 

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Andrew Diller
267-353-2203


> On Feb 27, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Jameel Akari <jakari at bithose.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 27, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Andrew Diller <dillera at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Anyone want to talk on discord about this? Who is actually doing it?
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> Send me an invite to the appropriate Discord, I don’t seem to have it anymore.  (Maybe I left because it was idle?)
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> 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.
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>> 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
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> Serial into a DECwriter if you can’t find a printer with a Centronics port.  Oh, and a ribbon that isn’t fossilized. :/
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>> Let me know if you are actually doing the print-out.
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> 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.
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> — 
> Jameel
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>> -andy
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>>>> On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:45 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>> They want a printout only?  Not a printer too, right?
>>> Bill
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>>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 9:34 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> --
>>>> Jameel Akari
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>>>>> On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:14 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>>> 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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