HP 710C on an A1200?

[tokyoracer]

Hi there again,

Just another thought (if possible). Would I be able to connect my old HP 710C to a 1200? I have the serial ports cable for it and as I have had very few problems with it in the past 10 years so it would be a shame to never use it again. I have a new printer waiting to be used on my current PC so I thought it would be an ideal time to de-comission the 710 to the Amiga so I can still enjoy it where possible. My Miggy should be online as soon as I recive my internet adapter, if all goes smoothly. Is it possible to find drivers for this online and make it work on 3.1 (and 3.9 in the future I hope)?

Thanks for looking!

P.s. Also have a SilverSurfer thing on the way, would be of any use? I know little about them.

[wurzel]

Hi,

Are you sure it's a serial printer? I thought most were parallel or USB.

By far the best way to get ANY printer working on Amiga is to use Turboprint. Check their webpage to see if that printer, or a similar one is listed. http://www.irseesoft.de/default.htm I can't see that particular one, but another printer driver might well do. Choose one of similar characteristics of your printer, or email them for advice. They are very good.

[Damion]

tokyoracer wrote:
Hi there again,

Just another thought (if possible). Would I be able to connect my old HP 710C to a 1200? I have the serial ports cable for it and as I have had very few problems with it in the past 10 years so it would be a shame to never use it again. I have a new printer waiting to be used on my current PC so I thought it would be an ideal time to de-comission the 710 to the Amiga so I can still enjoy it where possible. My Miggy should be online as soon as I recive my internet adapter, if all goes smoothly. Is it possible to find drivers for this online and make it work on 3.1 (and 3.9 in the future I hope)?

Thanks for looking!

P.s. Also have a SilverSurfer thing on the way, would be of any use? I know little about them.

Just an FYI -- Don't pull your hair out if it doesn't work. I had a 712C which, after hours of cursing and frustration, I couldn't get to do anything... was OK on my PC, though. (Came to the conclusion that it simply wasn't compatibile for some reason.) I ended up with an el-cheapo Canon which worked fine.

[tokyoracer]

Bugger, that turbo print app. has pretty much all the ones but skips right past mine to the 800 series! Ah well, thanks for your help guys.
I will have to carry on searching I think.

[RussellB]

I'm pretty sure the 700 series was for Windows only as there is no amiga drivers at all available for it.

[sandpiper]

@tokyoracer,

Sounds like a win printer. All the processing power is in the windows host (i.e PC) to enable HP to make the printer cheaper. Problem is you can't get them to work with an Amiga - directly that is. If you have your Amiga on a network together with a Windows machine, you can make it work using Ghostscript and Redmon on the Windows machine. See my post on aw.net a few years back. It worked very well for me at the time using an HP722c.

[tokyoracer]

Probably be better to just find one that is of a good quality and is dedicated to an Amiga. AND one that doesn't just make noise rather then pictures *Ahem* early/mid 90's Epson Stylus's. :lol:
I just thought it being a fairly old Printer it "might" work. I'm quite fond with it too.
So what newer printers will work on Amiga directly? I have a Photo R200 from Epson but I should think that is too new.

[sandpiper]

I just bought a Xerox 6120 Colour Laser for $369CDN~$369USD. It has postscript so will work with all Amigas. I don't know about newer inkjets/photoprinters.

[RW222]

IIRC the serial port has a couple of lines switched over a PC serial port, therefore you'd need an Amiga serial printer cable, like you usually need an amiga parallel printer cable.

The Canon BJ series always used to give great output on Amigas, think the 4000 and up went to the software driven lose-printer architecture, but the BJC-230 etc were great.

[Damion]

RW222 wrote:

The Canon BJ series always used to give great output on Amigas, think the 4000 and up went to the software driven lose-printer architecture, but the BJC-230 etc were great.

That's exactly what I ended up with on my A1200, I think it was a BJC-2100. Worked great.