Re: what are the current dos compatible HP printers?

And, as you rightly say, not all DOS programs can be run inside a
Windows DOS box. Plus there are still plenty of people out there who
use non-Windows and even non-DOS based computers (such as PLCs
(programmable logic controllers) and Sinclair machines, which are still
very popular).

Apart from industry going back to dot matrix printers, it appears that
only the second hand market will do as it is hard to find a new printer
with a parallel port on it, let alone one which does not rely on a
windows printer driver to convert the plain text.

The only long term solution which I can see, would be for someone to
sell a small box which runs Windows and can be networked in order to
install the correct printer driver. It would read the data output from
a computer running a DOS program (or similar) via its parallel port,
convert it using the Windows printer driver and output it to its own
printer. Not real time I admit, but that is not so important for
printing.

Samsung do offer one or two printers at the moment, but trying to find
out which models support plain text is like pulling teeth. Epson no
longer produce any suitable models (IIRC) and HP are going the same
way. Also the move from parallel ports has rendered the majority of
printers useless with this equipment - there are USB -> parallel
convertors, but not parallel->usb convertors alas and it is the
hardware which will have the parallel port and no usb connection.

Hmm interesting, but no real solutions at the moment, other than use
second hand printers (if you can find them). I have bought a couple of
second hand ones off eBay, but often they have blocked heads, or do not
produce the quality of print output as they are generally quite a few
years old now - this problem has been around for at least 4 years

Rich
www.rwapservices.co.uk

Otto Sykora wrote:
a dos program will try to write to paralell port, this will be locked
up by windows of presen versions.

networking, USB, all kind of adaptors can not work this way under DOS.

.

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