TI-H: RE: Printing
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TI-H: RE: Printing
We can't possibly design thermal printers! what! I've seen them before
in calculators and all it is is a dot matrix without pins. I've even
seen complete thermal assemblys with built in graphics drivers. Throw an
AVR on it and you have a thermal printer!
Richard Piotter
richfiles1@hotmail.com
>
>try something smaller... we don't need anything better than a 2:1 zoom.
>We can't possibly design our own thermal printers, but then again, =
>remember dot-matrix? we can use that, and it's plenty fast, and cheap
=
>to maintain. I have a 12 year old dot-matrix printer in perfect
working =
>condition!
>Christopher Kalos
>raptorone@stuytech.com
>Executive Director/Administrator
>Virtual Technologies Developer's Group
>
>
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>From: Grant Stockly[SMTP:gussie@alaska.net]
>Sent: Saturday, January 17, 1998 6:12 PM
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: TI-H: RE: Printing
>
>
>We were thinking in the line of a full 8 1/2x11 graph
>
>>YES, PRINTING IS IMPORTANT TO ME!. I hate having to do a million
>>"sketch the graph" problems in a row when the graph is already on my
>>calc.
>>As for how it should work, it would be nice to have it connected
>>directly to the calc. It should probably also be pretty quiet for use
>>in a classroom setting. A thermal printer that uses a roll of paper
>>similar to adding machine tape would work nicely for graphs and pic
>>files. I think HP has something like this but it is really expensive.
>>
>>
>>>Is printing important to you, and if so, how should it work?
>>>
>>>This is how Travis and I were planning:
>>>1. Calc contacts printer que
>>>2. reports picture size
>>>3. reports zoom size
>>>4. data (text, PIC)
>>>5. done
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