Which dot-matrix printer will work on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine - Old Hardware Warning

[Dedhi Sujatmiko]

On Thursday 15,April,2010 10:01 PM, Rashkae wrote:
>
> The pertinent details are whether the printer is standard width or wide
> carriage, and 9-pin vs. 24-pin.  So generally, you only have 4 possible
> configurations to deal with.
>    

That is very true. However, connecting dot matrix printer into current 
Ubuntu has its own problem, which is connectivity.
1. I notice there are dot matrix printer, I think made by Epson, which 
has USB only connector. It may not be using the same emulation as the 
paralel port dot matrix printer
2. For the paralel port dot matrix printer, current motherboard or 
laptop usually are not carrying this port anymore and people need to use 
the USB to LPT converter, which introduces another problem regarding its 
driver and compatibility.