----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] do inkjets and laser printers accept ASCII?


> Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
> > Those printers (with no brains) should be extinct at this point, since
> > thre is a required standard that all printers should print pure ascii
>
> Required by who?  Seems many of the printer manufacturers out there must
> have never heard of this standard, because thjose lobotomized printers are
> still coming out - one example is Canon's BJC-5000.  Another example would
> be most - if not all - multi-function devices (i.e. those gizmos that are
> supposed to combine printer, scanner, fax machine, etc in one device).
> There are still many printers out there that require a platform specific
> driver to work.
>
> For the original poster:  What printer is it that you are having troubles
> with?

The original printers were two:

a Brother HL-720 laser, and

an Epson Stylus PhotoEX.

Jus to update, I have been trying to use Borland Pascal 7.0 in a DOS window
to send form feeds, line feeds, etc, along with strings, etc.

The Brother will not respond to anything I send it.

I am about to try modifying an existing 8051 based product with a parallel
port to send out a form feed first. These two printers I am using are not
bottom of the line. They should take ASCII if any of them will.


Mark


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