On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:05:17 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 03:47:31 UTC+1, Paul wrote:
Dave W wrote:

I would like to connect a Canon BJ-10sx to a Windows 8.1 64bit laptop.

I'd be surprised if an inkjet that old still works. They don't last well.


For one old printer, a dot matrix, if you know the name
equivalent, some other dot matrix driver functions as a
"generic" and can make your crusty dot matrix work. There's
really no limit to the ingenuity people put into this stuff.

Last time I ran dot matrices, not recently, many had banks of switches that enabled them to present more than one mode of computer interface.

I can't imagine wanting to go back to dm. Currently listening to 1920s technology, but 1980s printers no thanks.


NT

I've got two of them and they work perfectly, although slow. They are
only 4cm high off the table. I was hoping to use one to print out my
gps track on tracing paper after a country walk, to give to interested
parties to superimpose on their OS map to see where we'd been.
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Dave W