41C setting the default printer to serial via 82164A

[Garth Wilson]

(12-01-2022 01:16 AM)dmh Wrote:  What if you want to print everything you are doing (eg TRACE mode etc)?

That would be a good exception; but the only time I've done a trace like that was to display things on the HP92198 video interface, and then it wasn't including operation on other IL devices. I'd have to look to see if the trace is even possible without individually selecting the video adapter, ie, whether the 41 could automatically identify it as a suitable target.

What I'm using now to print from the 41 is my Epson LX-350 dot-matrix impact printer, through the HP82165A HPIL-to-parallel interface converter. I just bought the printer brand new two months ago to replace a couple of older ones that would have cost more to get repaired than it cost to buy the newer, faster one. It's nice that all dozen dot-matrix impact printers Epson still makes all use the same ESC/P command set that my older ones used. I do have the HP-IL mini printer which I bought used and works but not as well as it should.