[NTLUG:Discuss] Dot Matrix Printer

[R P Herrold]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Steve Baker wrote:

> Greg Edwards wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone want to recommend and 132 column dot matrix printers that
> > work with the CUPS drivers? 

hmmm ... I still use my 12 year old Panasonic KX-1191 and just
dump plain old ascii text at it. -- no filter --

> > I have an old Panasonic KX-P1624 that the
> > CUPS drivers are pitiful with.  Some of the old RH drivers worked
> > reasonably well but that was several releases back and I can't seem to
> > locate them.

Nothing like that is really ever lost lost -- check ibiblio
for back SRPMs -- if you can ID WHEN -- handy version to time
conversion chart at:

    http://www.owlriver.com/redhat_versions.html

If it is pre RH 4.2, check the other compilations at:

  http://www.owlriver.com/projects/rpm/index.html

at the bottom
 
> > I like the wide printers for code and I would like to replace this thing
> > with something useful.

As before, simply using NO filter should turn the trick -- the
older RH filters were a shell script which did a plain
passthru when no postscript or PCL header was found ...

> I've not seen a dot matrix printer for *years*...compared to a laser printer
> (or even an el-cheapo inkjet), the noise and low quality of a dotmatrix printer
> make them pretty non-competitive these days.

except for N-part NCR paper forms, and specialty continuous 
form, as with MICR encoded checks ...
 
-- Russ Herrold