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From: walton%Deimos@cit-hamlet.arpa
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Subject: Printers
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 14:38:23 EST
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Editorial comment:  There are too <expletive deleted> many printers in 
this world.

Plea for help:  I have an off-brand printer called a Dataproducts model 
SPG-8010-2/4.  In its graphics mode, it understands a superset of the 
commands of a real IBM Graphics Printer, with two differences.  The base 
vertical graphics spacing is 1/144" rather than 1/216", and the pins on 
the print head are a little closer together, giving 82.5 instead of 72 
dots per inch vertically.  I would like to use this beast as a graphics 
printer with (among others) MicroSoft Word and the HALO graphics package.  
Does anyone out there have a printer like this?

Final comment:  Since there are so many different types of printers in the 
world, it would be very nice if companies like MicroSoft and Media 
Cybernetics made the format for the printer drivers for their software 
public, so that those who wanted to "roll their own" could do so.

                                          Steve Walton
                                          Caltech Solar Astronomy
                                          walton%deimos@hamlet.caltech.edu
                                          swalton@caltech.bitnet
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