Laser Printing with the ST

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Laser Printing with the ST

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Hello Friends,
Any suggestions for laser printers compatible with both PC/Linux and with AtariST ?
Thanks ! :geek:
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Re: Laser Printing with the ST

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Well, it would have to be a very old one with a parallel port for it to work with the ST directly. Otherwise you'd have to have something which could interface with the parallel port, take the output and then render it as PCL5, PCL6 or Postscript and send it to a USB or networked printer.
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Re: Laser Printing with the ST

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I think I've found something that will work: Brother HL-5240, it has both parallel and USB ports.
I'm not great at sight-reading, but I'd really like to be able to print some music out of Notator to hand to the minstrels in the event we can ever congregate in groups again.
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Re: Laser Printing with the ST

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You will need a printer driver to send the correct codes to the printer to write the image.

Is there a PCL5 driver on the ST?
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Re: Laser Printing with the ST

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stephen_usher wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 10:12 pm
Is there a PCL5 driver on the ST?
Not yet. Any suggestions?
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