Obsolete printerlab
From Publication Station
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
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
