Obsolete printerlab

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A small collection of obsolete printers within the Publication Station.

Collection of digital mostly office machines from the past, with a diversity of print techniques. The challenge to is get all off them all in a working state.

The machines

  • Fujitsu DL6600 Pro
  • Tally T2340 24
  • Epson TM-T20III) - receipt printer
  • Brother EM-701 fx
  • Silverreed EXP 400 Daisy Wheel Printer

Marktplaat find 1 March 2024:

  • DataSouth DS-220 (incl papier)
  • Brother M-1409 (incl cassette ribbons)
  • Star LC-10C (in doos)
  • Star SJ-144 (in doos)
  • Epson FX-80 (in doos)
  • Onbekend (in onderdelen)
  • Epson LX-800 (incl Cartridge)
  • HP 7470A Plotter
  • IBM Daisy 5216 Daisy wheel printer

The techniques

  • dot matrix
  • themal printer receipt printer - fax - labelprinter
  • daisywheel printer

Printing network

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Create a small network to connect all the printers. Preferably we want a a set up we the a printer is connected to the network or to a computer in this network.

  • Mac pro connected to internet and the printer network with second ethernet port.
  • Printserver with parallele and seriële ports
  • Raspberry pi as print en plot server https://github.com/henrytriplette/penplotter-webserver
  • Nec MultiSync V423-TM touchscreen - Intel stick with Windows 10

line print command notes

lpr -P typwriter <filename>

lpr -P <name of printer> <filename>

lpr -P -o orientation-requested=4 Typewriter test.txt

lpinfo

ls /dev/usb/

echo hello>/dev/usb/lp0

https://www.thegeekdiary.com/lpr-command-examples-in-linux/