Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:26:07AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/15/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Doesn't include the ML-whatever OkiData driver for my IBM Personal
> >Computer Graphics Printer (the one pictured with the 'New' IBM PC in
> >history books).
>
> Where do you keep getting ribbons for it?
>
The local office supply store. Standard full-width ribbon (not the
little jobs that hug the printhead).
The _only_ problem with the printer (and the reason that I don't
routinely print anything but plain-text) is that the little drive stick
that pokes up into the ribbon cartridge to rotate the ribbon has broken
off and replacements aren't available. The plastic its made of is
resistant to all glues (seems the same out of which they make glue-tube
caps). So to print anything, I have to stand there and twiddle the
ribbon's tentioning knob. Plain text goes a lot faster than graphics
(ps).
I have a laser and an inkjet printer but my wife has chemical
sensitivities and it takes a page 2 weeks to off-gas enough for her to
be able to read them; the dot-matrix is fine.
I'm always on the lookout for old hardware but so far people don't tend
to ditch dot-matrix until they are truely dead. The only people still
using them are business for multi-part forms.
I'd love to upgrade to a new 24-pin Epson.
Doug.
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