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

2011-08-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/14/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > It strained my Google-fu via two different search engines. Yeah, it's > not exactly a prominent site. (One thing you may want to consider, > here...how long will that OEM be around to provide replacement parts? > I'm going to venture a guess it's a relat

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

2011-08-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/14/2011 06:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Don't know. Don't have one. >> >> However, the manufacturer appears to still be in business, and that >> looks like it's a current product. Perhaps you could ask them? Their >> website isn'

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

2011-08-14 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/14/2011 06:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > Don't know. Don't have one. > > However, the manufacturer appears to still be in business, and that > looks like it's a current product. Perhaps you could ask them? Their > website isn't in the greatest of shape, but they do list a telephone > number

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

2011-08-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Gentoo, and I'm thinking of buying this printer: > http://cgi.ebay.in/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370533563484 > > The printer specification says that it can emulate Epson ESC/P and IBM > Proprinter command sets. >

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

2011-08-13 Thread Stroller
I'm quite well aware that dot-matrix printers are still "alive and well" - that would seem evident from the fact that you can buy one new on eBay. Saying that they're still is use, however, is a different matter from saying that they're in the kind of common, widespread, household use that they

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

2011-08-13 Thread 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 s

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

2011-08-13 Thread Stroller
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.cu