if the lines just print on top of themselves, then you just need line feeds as well as the carriage returns.
On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 at 18:11, Charles Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a DMP105 printer that I acquired along with my M100 and early on I > verified that the M1 could "print out" to the DMP. Formatting and a few > graphics characters notwithstanding, the text from an M100 file printed out > on paper. But the 105 has the world's smallest and least obtainable ribbon > cart and sooner or later the one I possess will fail. Let's not even talk > about replacing the ribbon or re-inking. > > So I hooked the M100, using its dedicated cable, to another printer (Canon > BJC80) having a parallel interface with a Centronics port. Something > prints, i.e. the printhead moves, but the text is being lost in > translation. I'm wondering if there is a peculiarity to the M100 print > scheme: either a special handshake, cable configuration or printer prologue > that the M100 uses and expects the printer to accommodate. > > Any suggestions? Thanks. > > -CH- >
