[net.periphs] How standard are printers that use a parallel port ?

wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich) (11/09/84)

	Many personal computers have a Centronics parallel
port.  Two questions :

	1- They all seem to call it "a standard parallel port"
		instead of "a Centronics port".  Are they
		identical, and this is just some sort of
		trademark game ?

	2- Are 99 percent of all Centronics-port printers
		compatible to the extent that I can send
		a typical ASCII text file out through the
		port and have it printed correctly ?  I
		have heard that some (many ?) printers
		use some handshaking that causes problems.
		Are most able to handle standard printable
		ASCII characters plus CR and LF ?  How
		about FF and BS ?

					Bill Dietrich
					houxj!wapd