Re: [gentoo-user] TVSE MSP 240 Classic Dot Matrix Printer

[Pandu Poluan]

Just want to inform that dot-matrix printers are still alive and well;
my office has 3 heavy duty dot-matrix printers for printing carbonized
tax receipts for our clients. And another medium duty one for printing
our carbonized salary slips ;)

Alas, the program used to print the tax receipts and salary slips are
custom windoze apps, so I can't be sure how they will work with Linux
boxen.

Rgds,


On 2011-08-13, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On 13 August 2011, at 05:24, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>> …
>> The printer specification says that it can emulate Epson ESC/P and IBM
>> Proprinter command sets.
>>
>> I saw CUPS documentation and it is written that printers supporting
>> Epson ESC/P command set are supported on Linux.
>> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#EPSON9
>>
>> I'd like to know if anybody is using this printer here on this list or,
>> does it require some hardware switch changes, etc (like jumper settings)
>> to make the printer comply to particular command set? I'm buying a dot
>> matrix printer for the first time, please help. It's urgent.
>
> I doubt if there's many people on this list using dot-matrix printers, let
> alone anyone using that particular model.
>
> If it emulates that Epson I doubt if you'll have too many problems (for
> plain text, dollar signs, spaces and line-feeds, at least; I don't warranty
> this advice if you need to do graphics or fancy little glyphs or wingdings).
>
> You're right that you might have to change some jumpers, but they shouldn't
> be hard to find or access. Ask the seller - it'll probably be documented in
> the manual.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>


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