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| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: nali on January 09, 2018, 06:49:13 pm ---This seems to do what you want, but they don't seem to have released it yet... http://www.retroprinter.com/about-the-retro-printer/what-does-the-retro-printer-do/ --- End quote --- I was looking at this a few years ago, but it seems there has been no movement on this project since 2015. Might be worth contacting them. |
| tooki:
The Brother HL-L5000D has a parallel port and both IBM Proprinter and Epson FX emulation. In theory, a drop-in replacement printer. There should be tons of old printer models (especially business models) that have compatible emulation, eBay (or the local equivalent) should offer many options. |
| tooki:
And a bit of further browsing shows that a bunch of Oki printers (both laser and dot matrix) have parallel ports and Epson FX and/or IBM Proprinter support. I don’t think people realize how important those features still are in a lot of legacy business environments. |
| tooki:
Finally, it appears that IBM Proprinter format has actually been subsumed into a larger standard called “Personal Printer Data Stream”, so if you see a printer with PPDS support, it appears it should theoretically work. Some similar thing might be the case on the Epson side, where ESC/P appears to encompass Epson LQ. |
| tooki:
I also found this doodad, which is designed to connect to a parallel port and capture the data, and outputs it to USB for printing. It does no data format conversion, but presumably one could capture the data somehow and parse it. http://www.lpt2usb.com/lpt-to-usb-adapter The Photologic product line you linked to is similar, and they expressly say customers have done things like this. |
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