Marcel Duchamp wrote:
>> Have you installed the "printer fix" from HP, that they used to send out
>> free of charge?
>
> No. It died for good last year... one of the times when it grabbed the
> last 30 pages in the hopper and tried to feed them all at once.  I
> yanked the wad out and stripped the gears.  My bad...
>
> It did print nice when it printed.  I had it at work and we have 2 or 3
> of the HP-1012's around so I use those now.
>
> Need a parallel port? Could begin to get hard to find.  Someone once
> gave me a Centronics printer.  I sold it for 20 bucks. Should have kept
> it for a conversation piece.  "Yup, the real thing. Complete with
> Centronics interface."  Made a racket when it printed. Part of an S100
> bus system.  The good old days.  Glad they are gone.

The setup we have now works, and I wouldn't want to make any drastic 
changes. There are plenty of refurbished printers out there, with Centronics 
interface -- and it's less expensive to maintain what we have, than to go 
out and buy something new.

Vitaliy 

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