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James Womack Date: Fri Oct 1, 1999 9:56 am Subject: Re: Question About Epson Printers | ||||||||
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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" wrote: In May Cecelia Flood had trouble getting printers that worked > properly from the Albuquerque Public Schools. We went around to various > used computer stores in Albuquerque, and were able to find some old Epson > dot matrix printers for around $30 apiece, if I remember right. Another option is to visit the website of the manufactorer to see if theyh ave drivers online you can download. I apologize for not remembering right now, but once I stumbled on a website that probably would be the most helpful. It was a site maintained by some guy who seems to be a collector of sorts. the site had drivers for both modern stuff and stuff you don't even see around anymore. This included printers. The reason I remember it now is that I was looking for a driver for someone's old Citizen printer and found it. In the process, I saw many outdated printer drivers. But since I didn't really need the site for myself, I never did record where it was. Perhaps using a search engine and the terms: printer drivers, driver center, drivers, or printers might lead you to this site. Also, Windows (basically a DOS shell) had a universal driver that ran most printers. Another option, if you can find it at one of those used stores or someplace, get ahold of an old DOS wordprocessor like Professional Write 2.0 or even WordPerfect 4.2. They had many drivers on them that fit most printers of the time. And finally, Canon 620 and 4550 printers have DOS specific drivers which I was told can emulate or force emulation from other printers. Now, this I can't vouch for. I never tried it, I am skeptical, but you seem a bit desperate, so. . . . | ||||||||
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