Printing 16 colour Neochrome pictures from a real Atari ST today?

[oky2000]

Does anybody know what was the last generation of colour inkjet/laser printers that could be used with an Atari ST?

 

I remember when I borrowed a printer from school in the summer I used the screen dump facility and it just worked, probably after setting some dip switches too, but that was a 9 pin dot matrix and monochrome (Epson FX-80 I think).

 

Inkjet printers came more in the era of the Falcon I think from memory.

 

(of course I could transfer them from disk onto a PC, convert them to BMP etc and then print them no problem but that means I have to use a PC.....so less of an authentic experience for fun).

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Inkjet printers were present on market already in 1988. Monochrome.

Most likely, there is no driver SW for Atari and color inkjet printers. So, you have 2 options: to write driver SW self, or to print it from MAC

[Goochman]

I used an HP Inkjet 500 (I think that was the name) - it had an Epson compat cartridge I plugged into it and the ST printed wonderfully on it - B&W though.

[MrMaddog]

Use ImageCopy, it imports NeoChrome pics and has inkjet drivers.

 

http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-imagecopy_30638.html

[oky2000]

Inkjet printers were present on market already in 1988. Monochrome.

Most likely, there is no driver SW for Atari and color inkjet printers. So, you have 2 options: to write driver SW self, or to print it from MAC

 

...or Windows as I said. I found a website about a software company that wrote their own drivers after pestering Atari for ages for printer driver developer files to make them. It would be easier to write a AAA game for the ST from what I gather

[oky2000]

Use ImageCopy, it imports NeoChrome pics and has inkjet drivers.

 

http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-imagecopy_30638.html

 

That looks quite useful indeed, thanks for the link.

 

It even mentions Laserjet compatibility, I wonder when the last Color Laserjet model with a Parallel port was produced, time to see if people still list them up on ebay.

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Well, you can use emulator to save Atari screen in BMP or some other regular format too. So, we are at 'worst' solution again - using PC

I had color inkjet for parallel port some 10 years ago, still working. But parallel port was serious speed problem - during printing everything slowed down in Windows, so could not do anything other while. USB is much more multitasking friendly. I would not recommend parallel port printer, not even for Atari - they are just too old. New ones are cheap.