Daisy Wheel Printer driver

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Tim Bailey

My 86 year old Dad has a Dasiy Wheel printer he wants to
use with his new computer running Win XP. I can't talk him
out of using the printer .. and I can't figure out what
driver to use to make it work .. HELP !!!!! Thanks
 
There may not be a driver for a daisy wheel printer. Get
him a more modern printer if you can't find any XP drivers,
try a Google by make/model/drivers.


message | My 86 year old Dad has a Dasiy Wheel printer he wants to
| use with his new computer running Win XP. I can't talk him
| out of using the printer .. and I can't figure out what
| driver to use to make it work .. HELP !!!!! Thanks
 
My 86 year old Dad has a Dasiy Wheel printer he wants to
use with his new computer running Win XP. I can't talk him
out of using the printer .. and I can't figure out what
driver to use to make it work .. HELP !!!!! Thanks
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Create a generic ascii text printer.

It's a start.
 
If you can't talk him out of the printer, then maybe you will have to create
a computer with Windows 98SE on it instead.
That will work with the printer, and he will probably not know the
difference about the loss of features from the O/S anyway.

Daisy wheel printers will not work with WinXP or Win2K so your option are to
get him a cheap inkjet or an operating system that supports the daisy wheel
printer.

blariz
 
Tim said:
My 86 year old Dad has a Dasiy Wheel printer he wants to
use with his new computer running Win XP. I can't talk him
out of using the printer .. and I can't figure out what
driver to use to make it work .. HELP !!!!! Thanks
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Have you tried to set the printer as a Generic Text printer and seeing
if that works?
 
Calling it a Generic Text printer should work, though you will lose
anything that requires intelligence at the host end and/or escape
sequences sent to the printer. e.g. Proportional spacing probably
won't work, and graphics certainly won't. (for those who haven't used
one of these beasties, yes, you can do true dot graphics on them, but
it is very hard on the period "petal" and not terribly high res!)

My 86 year old Dad has a Dasiy Wheel printer he wants to
use with his new computer running Win XP. I can't talk him
out of using the printer .. and I can't figure out what
driver to use to make it work .. HELP !!!!! Thanks
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Peter R. Fletcher
 
I used to have one of these (laughing)...

Hmm.. why am I laughing.. I still have a dot matrix printer sitting
here.. It is built like a tank ............... (I do have a modern
photo ink jet as well)

JM
 
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