Obsolete printerlab
From Publication Station
The obsolete Printer lab
This is a proposal to create a place for 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 techniques and the machines
- Penplotter - HP 7475A A3 penplotter / HP DraftMaster A0 penplotter
- Dot matrix printer - Fujitsu DL6600 Pro matrixprinter / Tally T2340 24 matrixprinter
- Thermal printer (Epson TM-T20III) - receipt printer - fax - labelprinter
- Daisywheel printer - Automatic typewriter Brother EM-701 fx / Silverreed EXP 400 Daisy Wheel Printer
- Solid ink wax based - Xerox tektronix 8400DX Color printer
Printing network
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
