24 Apr
2014
24 Apr
'14
10:37 a.m.
On 24 April 2014 10:15, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
I've still got an old Oki Microline parallel printer; two, in fact, plus at least one copy of the manual which has all sorts of codes and strings in it for controlling these things. Let me know if you need anything, and I'll see if I can help.
Thanks Laurie.
I've just ordered two USB/parallel adapters and a "laplink" cable off eBay to experiment with. Now that you mention it I might have an old Star dot matrix printer lurking somewhere (I think it may be long gone though). Although all I really need to do is set up a PC so it *thinks* it is talking to a printer and capture it from another PC (or the same PC on a different port),
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