dennis@home wrote:

"Calvin" wrote in message
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On Oct 26, 1:03�pm, Andy Burns wrote:
George wrote:
What about MDF...would this work?

Doesn't act as a great sponge IME (though it doesn't like prolonged
exposure to water)

Whatever you use has to be rotproof, so natural fibre felt and paper
are out. Microfibre cloth maybe.

Re low cost lasers, they're surely the way to go if you can do without
colour. I'd have to be mad to go back to an inkjet, what a PITA
technology they were. Reminds me... I still remember being seriously
impressed when seeing a daisy wheel that double printed to give bold!
Anyone remember 7 pin dot matrixes with no descenders?


NT

I long for a 7-pin dot matrix!
Seriously, I have a real world application which I can't satisfy with
any printer technolgy I can find at the moment.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/117712

Why not print to a file using a line printer driver in windows.
Put the file on a usb stick or two.

That's exactly what we do with the slight tweak that if we have enough
computers around we run the ticker-tape application on a seperate
machine. The recording machine spits the scores out as a UDP packet
and all machines on the network can listen and record as they wish.
That gives quite a lot of redundancy especially as laptops don't die
if the power disappears. I always save the backup file to USB stick
immediately the competition is over but the real danger time is during
the competition itself when you really can't save the file off.
The rules of the sport, which pre-date the use of computers, demand
that the awards are recorded on paper contemporaneously and there's
something about having a real paper copy which makes you feel so much
better than if you're told not to worry the computer will keep a
record!