thanks gives me a couple brands to look out for ..my neighbour collects old stuff couple printers in there ..might get lucky..
Always had look with Canon Bubblejets from the early-mid 90s, the BJ10e/ex/sx machines, the BJ30, BJC models that use parallel. Cannon supplied software and drivers you can still download from Aminet:
http://aminet.net/package/driver/print/CanonDisk398d