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| 1416355 | 2016-02-21 20:34:00 | Emulate a dot matrix printer with a HP (or other) Laser printer ? Ive never tried this , should be do-able in theory, but whats the actual reality ? Very old Dos program , running on Dos6. There is still some support for the program (semi retired guy in Aus) , so some hope there, if he's still available . Prints to a Dot matrix , printer has died. Would be just silly to buy a new wide carriage dot matrix (at around $800+) The program itself, (being old & dos) is a nightmare to configure printers on , just finding all the submenus that need settings changed So will a laser printer, via its Epson emulation (Epsonfx emulation ?), actually give a usable printout . Original dot matrix was a wide carriage, so thats another spanner in the works Cheers The other option is of course a used dotmatrix off trademe, but thats a lot of mucking about (pickup after hours from the other side of Ak, testing, getting ribbons, hoping it works) Cheers |
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| 1416356 | 2016-02-21 21:33:00 | Dont know if this will be any help or not. Never tried it, but there's a program ( free trial) that says it does what you want ( kind of) www.j-m-s.com The trial zip file even tells you how to install /set it up. I know at the SWMBO work they have an old DOS program that prints to a Laser no problems, but no idea how its setup. If you have a laser to test it on then there's nothing to lose, could be a waste though if you have to go buy a laser first. |
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| 1416357 | 2016-02-21 21:40:00 | Printing to a laser from dos, not an issue as that just works regardless (unless its USB or a cheapy Win only printer) I know many printers have dot matrix emmulation, Im not sure how well that works. The software expects to print to a wide carriage Dot matrix, thats the tricky bit. Ive a couple of lasers I can test with |
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| 1416358 | 2016-02-21 22:23:00 | Printfil | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1416359 | 2016-02-21 22:40:00 | The PC is running DOS6 guys, Windows programs not much use :) The retail software in question is running on 20year old foxpro !!! It was previously on a 486 . Ive been having a play on a temp PC ... Luckily , the old program supports HP PCL, so I can just change the printer in the program. That works, so far . Fonts are very small though. Thats the next mission, changing font size in the printer itself. From memory you send commands to the printer to do this. |
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| 1416360 | 2016-02-22 00:13:00 | Yeah there are special ASCII characters that set the printer into various modes, font sizes, etc. Been years since I used any of that though. Do you have the option to print to a text file instead and then transfer to a windows machine to print? I seem to recall dos commands that allow printer ports to be rerouted to the screen or a file? Probably wouldn't keep any formatting though. Not much call for such things these days, I threw away a few dot matrix printers years ago. |
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| 1416361 | 2016-02-22 00:42:00 | Whoops sorry, didn't read that bit. :o | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1416362 | 2016-02-22 04:03:00 | Whoops sorry, didn't read that bit. :o Youre taking time to try & help out, so thanks regardless . :) Possibly all sorted now . I'll find out over the next few days . |
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