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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Nothing to do with Amiga and MIDI
Message-ID: <864@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 13:59:58 GMT
References: <2490@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1268@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Laser printers on serial ports


Unfortunately, much of the work that I do must be done in the land
of blue pinstripes.  Curiously, serveral of the more popular word
processing programs expect one to attach HP laserjets via the
serail port eventhough one would presume that the parallel port
would be faster.  If one insists on using the parallel port by
redirecting the serial port, the printer will print, but the out-
put will be braindamaged with margins off, underlines goofed, etc.

I could see that if the printer ruminates over its data for several
seconds now and then that with the parallel port, the host might
think the printer went south.

I agree;  I think it would be nice to see an option board for the
Amiga 2000 that had 3 or 4 serail ports that could exist on the
Amiga side of the machine.  It would be neat to make the Amiga
the brain center of my house, and string serial cables to control
various goodies.

--Bill