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Jake
Group, I'm new and desperate. I never thought I'd find a piece of
hardware I couldn't get support for somewhere on the web, but I guess
there's always a first time, so I'm turning to Usenet where I'm pretty
sure people with experience in these things still hang out regularly.
Can anybody help?
I have a Printronix P1013 dot-matrix printer I need to get working for
some specialized work I think might benefit from this "ancient"
technology. The thing initially *seemed* to work with a Printronix 5000
dot matrix driver that comes standard with Windows XP, but with a dry
ribbon it was hard to tell.
So I inked up the old ribbon with stamp pad ink, figuring I had little
to lose, but now I find the text and images coming out from this thing,
despite all of its very authoritative-sounding zings and zips, is
unrecognizable. Plus, each print job runs on and on, until I power off
the device and delete the job in the print queue.
Can anybody tell me where I can find a workable Windows NT or XP driver
for this device? Printronix is no longer supporting it, from all I can
ascertain from the web site.
Also, can anybody tell me if graphics can be accomplished with the same
driver as text?
One more for you all: Will a freshly-moistened ribbon ever turn out
reasonable images on a dot-matrix printer if the moistening is done with
water-based ink? Actually, this is of the least importance since I wish
to ultimately use this printer for producing ink and glass-etching
resists for commercial graphics. But having it available for cheap
hard-copy output is a plus, if I can manage to make it happen. Plus
getting a good visible image in ink before actually cutting the stencil
is a good thing, as well.
Thanks in advance for any advice I can get from a older computer geek,
like me, or a even a younger one who might have had some previous
experience with these things.
Jake
hardware I couldn't get support for somewhere on the web, but I guess
there's always a first time, so I'm turning to Usenet where I'm pretty
sure people with experience in these things still hang out regularly.
Can anybody help?
I have a Printronix P1013 dot-matrix printer I need to get working for
some specialized work I think might benefit from this "ancient"
technology. The thing initially *seemed* to work with a Printronix 5000
dot matrix driver that comes standard with Windows XP, but with a dry
ribbon it was hard to tell.
So I inked up the old ribbon with stamp pad ink, figuring I had little
to lose, but now I find the text and images coming out from this thing,
despite all of its very authoritative-sounding zings and zips, is
unrecognizable. Plus, each print job runs on and on, until I power off
the device and delete the job in the print queue.
Can anybody tell me where I can find a workable Windows NT or XP driver
for this device? Printronix is no longer supporting it, from all I can
ascertain from the web site.
Also, can anybody tell me if graphics can be accomplished with the same
driver as text?
One more for you all: Will a freshly-moistened ribbon ever turn out
reasonable images on a dot-matrix printer if the moistening is done with
water-based ink? Actually, this is of the least importance since I wish
to ultimately use this printer for producing ink and glass-etching
resists for commercial graphics. But having it available for cheap
hard-copy output is a plus, if I can manage to make it happen. Plus
getting a good visible image in ink before actually cutting the stencil
is a good thing, as well.
Thanks in advance for any advice I can get from a older computer geek,
like me, or a even a younger one who might have had some previous
experience with these things.
Jake