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From: wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich)
Newsgroups: net.periphs
Subject: How standard are printers that use a parallel port ?
Message-ID: <425@houxj.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 18:30:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 18:30:54 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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	Many personal computers have a Centronics parallel
port.  Two questions :

	1- They all seem to call it "a standard parallel port"
		instead of "a Centronics port".  Are they
		identical, and this is just some sort of
		trademark game ?

	2- Are 99 percent of all Centronics-port printers
		compatible to the extent that I can send
		a typical ASCII text file out through the
		port and have it printed correctly ?  I
		have heard that some (many ?) printers
		use some handshaking that causes problems.
		Are most able to handle standard printable
		ASCII characters plus CR and LF ?  How
		about FF and BS ?

					Bill Dietrich
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