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- PhiLho February 2014
Dot Matrix Printer
Hello, i have an old dot matrix printer (cti incorporation) and I wondered If there is any way of using this printer through processing (either on mac or windows, doesn't matter). Thanks for any suggestions !!!
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For a start, I doubt you will find a driver for a recent version of Windows (and perhaps of Mac too)...
Is the printer connected to parallel or serial port? In the former case, you would need an old computer still having this kind of port (or perhaps an add-in parallel card, I suppose they still sold them).
In the old times (8-bit computers!), you just sent words to the parallel port, following whatever protocol the printer understood.