RE: TI-H: RE: Printing
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RE: TI-H: RE: Printing
The network only has 1 chip. The only reason the printer has an AVR is
because the AVR has to interperate the network traffic...
>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
>
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>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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