[comp.periphs.printers] Help needed with Okidata Microline 82 & 83

dragon@quiche (Edward YEE) (02/23/90)

Hello,

    I would like to know if the Okidata Microline 82 & 83 printers
are just text printers, or are they capable of producing graphics.

    I would like to have them installed on the ibm pc.  Can they
print IBM graphics?  If not, what could be done to make it print
IBM graphics?  Is there a chip needed to add to the printer?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu (02/23/90)

In article <2251@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>, dragon@quiche (Edward YEE) writes...
>Hello,
> 
>    I would like to know if the Okidata Microline 82 & 83 printers
>are just text printers, or are they capable of producing graphics.


The Okidata printers are capable of printing graphics, but they use their 
own particular escape sequences to do so, and are not compatable
with the IBM ProPrinter (as I remember). Most graphics programs support the
printer, however.