Re: no such thing as a "generic" printer...

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi!

I see that our resident troll and oem spammer is trying to convince
someone (himself?) that there is such a thing as a "generic' printer.

A generic printer?


That would be anything that supports Epson FX comatibility. I have
nearly literally a pile of them (one of them being an Epson, just like I
have at least one IBM brand PC, ans a stack of IBM clones).

For ink, how generic would the HP '26 cart be? I've seen numerous non-HP
printers that could probably accept a 26 cart (and I have one that does,
with slight modification to the cart).

While there's probably no printer that is named or sold as such,
almost any printer with an onboard processor can be driven with a
generic driver that allows text-only printing.

Provided it uses Paralell or RS-232 serial.

I don't know if any modern printers still emulate Epson (FX-80) or IBM
Graphics printers, but those are also drivers that can treat a printer
as though it were a "generic" type.

William



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