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Herry Senior Member  Joined: 31/05/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 261 |
I really wanted A4 printing, unfortunately. The old business programs I was hoping to resuscitate need full pages. Senior?! Whatever it says, I'm a complete and utter beginner... |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9593 |
A4 laser-printers with a Centronics parallel printer interface might work, but you would need the likes of the PrinterMite to buffer the data and then only print the entire page once it had been buffered in the PrinterMite. Laser printers with a parallel port are hard to find now though. They generally accept lots of lines of data via D0-D7 and STROBE for each line, and will print out anything clocked into their internal memory via the parallel interface, when you then clock in a FF(Form Feed) command. But again, finding a laser printer with a parallel interface these days is quite a big ask I think.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6269 |
Start with this https://download.brother.com/welcome/doc002907/Tech_Manual_AC.pdf I think it covers at least one of your printers. I am not sure if drivers are available for RPi. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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