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From looking at the comments on here it seems many people are missing the point of this device and are thinking of it as something more than what it is--which i
by a2tech 4y ago
From looking at the comments on here it seems many people are missing the point of this device and are thinking of it as something more than what it is--which is an adapter from an old device to a modern printer. It is not a general replacement for 2-way parallel port communication.
- rwap 4y agoTrue - it is not designed for 2 way parallel port communication - it just captures the data sent to a parallel port and emulates an old printer (Epson ESC/P, ESC/P2, HP PCL, PostScript, Printronix, Tandy, IBM ProPrinter) - converting the output to PDF which can then be printed or stored. It was quite a bit later in the history of the printer, when equipment started to expect 2-way communication with printers - obtaining information about the model, ink levels, paper status etc - generally that type of equipment had printer drivers for each model of printer. We would have liked to implement something along those lines, but there is very little information (if any) about the status messages passed from the printer back to the equipment (it is not covered in the ESC/P2 documentation for example as that was last updated in 1990).