[rescue] Looking to dump old Centronics printer

[Koyote]

"Jeffrey Nonken" <jeff_work at nonken.net> writes:

> On 10 Mar 2003 17:12:50 -0800, Koyote <koyote at koyote.cx> wrote:
> 
> > > I have a Centronics 702 printer. Condition unknown, worked 10 years ago
> when
> > > I
> > > stuck it in the garage. Comes with a printer stand and a paper catcher.
> >
> > Given what you have, I imagine someone in the region has a PDP or
> > $OLDIRON to hook it up to.
> >
> > who carea about slow if you can set it to printing overnight and not
> > have to watch it?
> >
> > On a side note for my inkjet printers, I've been finding literal tons of
> > 8 and 15 inch tractor feed paper (I cna only use the letter sized stff
> > for pennies lately. excellent way to cheply print out docco.
> 
> BTW, I have another 15" tractor feed dot matrix printer, it works, and it's
> considerably more modern. Epson ESC/P2 LQ-1170. Company bought a bunch for
> printing labels, 5 or 10 of them, and all but one sat for 6 months when they
> decided to use a different technology. IT pulled them from their boxes and
> sold 'em for $5 each, complete with manuals, still in the plastic. Naturally,
> I grabbed one. :) I also grabbed about 10 replacement ribbons when some
> office
> supplies were being cleaned out. Accessories are still available for this
> model.
> 
> It's light enough that I'm likely to hang onto it unless I'm really
> desperate.


Ah, now that is useful for some things. hang onto that one.