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 <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.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. > > > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
