Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
by jahewson on Friday October 04, 2024 @12:20PM
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I guess your printer driver is free to emulate an LPT if it wants to.
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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
by userbinator on Saturday October 05, 2024 @02:39AM
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Thankfully even USB-connected printers emulate an LPT (see the other comment I left in this tree) and are very likely to accept one of the standard command sets as well as just plain ASCII.
It's similar to the terminal emulation situation: despite being decades old, the VT100 has become a de-facto terminal command set due to its popularity.