RE: TI-H: RE: Printing

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RE: TI-H: RE: Printing

and how many chips do we want to slap into this network?  I'm trying to be reasonable here.  We're talking about the TI network, based on the z80 CPU, not a whole group of linked AVR's with an $80-$120 displays with keypads.  And I meant design as in physically build the entire unit from the ground up, not slapping a processor onto it.
Christopher Kalos
raptorone@stuytech.com
Executive Director/Administrator
Virtual Technologies Developer's Group


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From: 	Richard Piotter[SMTP:richfiles1@hotmail.com]
Sent: 	Saturday, January 17, 1998 9:36 PM
To: 	ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: 	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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