Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!suna5.cs.uiuc.edu!siegfred
From: siegfred@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Serial printing from an Amiga
Keywords: serial, printer
Message-ID: <1990May8.174510.28002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 17:45:10 GMT
Sender: Bryan Siegfried
Reply-To: siegfred@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Science, Urbana
Lines: 19


	I bought a Seikosha SP-1000 printer a week ago  in anticipation
to buying a printer later this summer.  It was just too good of a deal to
pass up.  However, it is a serial printer (part of why it was so cheap).
I've talked to an Amiga user, and he says that the Amiga may not be totally
compatible with a serial printer.

	I'm most familiar with the IBMs (not that they're my favorite), and
I know howto convince the IBM to send data meant for the parallel port to 
the serial port.  This is nice for a lot of the command-line print commands,
and unconfigurable print features (which almost always print to the parallel
port.  Is there also a way to convince the Amiga to treat the serial port
as if it is a parellel? Is there even a need for this?

	I'm also looking at the C=128, so if anyone might know how to do this
on a C=128, I'd be happy to hear from you.

Bryan Siegfried -=- siegfred@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu
biology and economics at uiuc