Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpb!res
From: res@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Rich Strebendt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy/Radio Shack Printers
Summary: Sorry ... Tandy Standards != IBM Standards
Keywords: Tandy, DMP-200, CGP-220, Printers
Message-ID: <10541@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 22:45:35 GMT
References: <1994@gmu90x.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 21

In article <1994@gmu90x.UUCP>, gklimes@gmu90x.UUCP (George Klimes) writes:
> I currently own two Radio Shack printers, the DMP-200 and the CGP-220.
> What I would like to know is if there are equivalent printers with
> different names (from different manufacturers). What I'd like to know is
> if I can use my printers (from my Tandy 3000HL) with software drivers for
> other printers from the various software packages out there that do not
> mention these printers as being supported. 

I also own a Tandy DMP-200 which I now have hooked up to a 386 box.  It is fine
for ASCII, but not for graphics.  The reason is simply that this printer
supports a standard that Tandy defined years ago for printers in its product
line.  Unfortunately, this standard is not compatible with the more recent
interfaces defined by various manufacturers for use with MSDOS boxes.  Unless
the package you are using supports this Tandy standard, the printer cannot be
used for graphics for that package.  Even if you found that the printer had
been manufactured for Tandy by a well known printer vendor, it would have been
manufactured to Tandy's specifications and standards, not the usual ones for
that vendor.

				Rich Strebendt
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