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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial printing from an Amiga
Summary: Piece of cake!
Keywords: serial, printer
Message-ID: <2140@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 May 90 12:26:42 GMT
References: <1990May8.174510.28002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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Organization: E&M-Columbia, NCR Corp, W Columbia, SC
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In article <1990May8.174510.28002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> siegfred@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried) writes:
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|	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?

Actually you don't have to do anything special.  Just set the port to serial
instead of parallel with preferences.  I have used a serial printer just fine.


Steve
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