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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy/Radio Shack Printers
Keywords: Tandy, DMP-200, CGP-220, Printers
Message-ID: <1425@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 06:16:43 GMT
References: <1994@gmu90x.UUCP> <1420@bucket.UUCP> <3421@letni.LawNet.Com>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <3421@letni.LawNet.Com> doug@letni.LawNet.Com (Doug Davis) writes:
<In article <1420@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
<>The problem is best described by reffering to my DMP-2100. This printer is 
<>for all practical purposes, a Toshiba (p-351?) with A DIFFERENT SET OF ROMS!
<>The ROMs are the problem. Tandy printers without IBM emulation modes are
<>essentially useless for graphics except with software that supports Tandy
<>grapics. 
I should have said "except with the RARE software that supports Tandy
graphic PROPERLY.

<Gosh, IBM printers without Tandy emulation modes are essentially useless
<for graphics, expect with software that support IBM graphics.
<
<Remeber folks, Tandy had the "Tandy" standard long before PC's were a
<gleam in IBM's eye. 

What I want to know is why all the programs that claim to support Tandy
printers either only support them in IBM mode (whoopee! so they just use
the IBM driver again... big deal..) or else only support the models that
already have IBM emulation. 

Sure I can buy a new Epson. But I can't afford on as fast as either my DMP-500
or DMP-2100. And The nearest equivalent I can find to the CGP-220 is an HP
Paintjet at $1k! :-(


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