oky2000 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Use ImageCopy, it imports NeoChrome pics and has inkjet drivers. http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-imagecopy_30638.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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