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Laurent FRANCOISE

J'ai réparé mon imprimante matricielle ! 🎉
C'est une Star LC-10, elle imprimait un début de ligne et le chariot se bloquait avant que l'imprimante ne se mette en erreur.
J'ai vérifié l'alimentation, la commande du moteur du chariot, RAS.
Au final c'était un problème mécanique, j'ai graissé les éléments mobiles du chariot et j'ai fait tourner le ruban encreur dans sa cartouche avec une visseuse électrique, et ça m'a l'air bon maintenant !
Testé avec mon #Atari Mega STE et le traitement de texte Papyrus (et pas la bonne fonte!)
#dotmatrix #printer #retrocomputing

Une imprimante matricielle Star LC-10 sans son capot, on voit l'alimentation et le PCB principal, ainsi que le chariot horizontal avec la cartouche contenant le ruban encreur. Il y a une feuille A4 imprimée avec un dessin d'une feuille de papyrus et le mot Papyrus en dessous
Un Atari Mega STE avec un écran monochrome et le traitement de texte Papyrus
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Bits&Terminal Jeff

Specifications for the Epson LX-80 dot matrix printer from its manual. In 1984 these were fairly typical for 9 pin printers, though things like Near Letter Quality mode were less common (a mode that increased the effective resolution of each character: normal mode characters had to fit in a 8x9 grid, while NLQ characters had a denser 12x18 grid for the same size - this allowed 9 pin printers to stay relevant a bit longer though at the cost of printing speed).

Page from a manual for the LX-80 printer describing its specifications, see text below. Appendix H Technical Specifications Printing Printing method Impact dot matrix Printing speed 100 characters per second per line in Paper feed speed Approximately 150 ms/line (at 1/6 inch/line) Approximately 100 ms/line (during continuous line feed) Printing direction Bidirectional, logic seeking Unidirectional (left to right) in graphics mode Character set 96 Roman characters 96 italic characters 32 international characters 32 italic international characters 32 graphic characters 96 NLQ characters 32 NLQ international characters Character size Mode Width inches Height inches Pica .083 in .122 in Pica expanded .166 in .122 in Elite .059 in .122 in Elite expanded .118 in .122 in Compressed .041 in .122 in Compressed expanded .083 in .122 in Super/Subscript .063 in Line spacing Default is 1/6 inch. Programmable in increments of 1/72 inch and 1/216 inch
#epson#dotMatrix#retroComputing
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Bits&Terminal Jeff

Well, internal test works - ribbon is pretty much dead but that was to be expected. Still, it sounds pretty good now. Will try to revive the ribbon.

Warning: might be loud.

Edit: Connected it to my Apple IIe's parallel printer card later on and I was able to print from BASIC. So it works.

#dotMatrix#Epson#retroComputing
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Wintermute_BBS

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

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