Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 May 2009, Ric Moore wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 23:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> So don't blame it on kde4 style printers, its all of them AFAIK.  This
>> epson is nearly a decade old, and the Stylus Pro in front of it was the
>> same way in 1994.
>
>My old Teletype 43 and my NEC Spinwriter 5525 could print boxes of
>printer paper on one cartridge. I almost miss them!
>http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=287
>Can't find a pic of the Spinwriter!

IIRC that TT-43 used a fabric cartridge ribbon and I know the Spinwriter did.  
I still have a Xerox 1650-ro, but it uses a film cartridge and there are no 
cartridges in the pipeline today that haven't been stored in a Mexican 
Warehouse for 20 years, so now they print one character per cartridge as the 
first strike on the daisy shatters the film.  Great old printer in its day, at 
40cps was the fastest daisy wheel ever made, although you had to screw AND 
glue the cart it sat on if you didn't want the cart to self destruct, the full 
18" carriage return was 200 milliseconds.  But it can have an afterlife too, 
as it would make a great boat anchor. :)  But that seems a rather ignominious 
end for a great printer. :(

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