82162a HP-IL thermal printer success

[Sylvain Cote]

Hello Vincent,

(11-02-2016 12:39 PM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  So, nobody bought this for the FMT feature ? Any way to emulate this on the 82143a btw ?

FMT was a nice addition but you could replicate it by doing manual formatting with spaces.

(11-02-2016 12:39 PM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  Or for the parse mode or barcode printing ? Maybe the latter was better on the thinkjet ? (any 41 applications written for 80 columns ?)

For barcode printing, I used an HP-7470A plotter with the plotter module (82184A).
The IL thermal printer (82162A) worked but was less than optimal for big programs.

For HP-IL protocol sniffing, I used the HP-IL Development ROM with the 41 thermal printer (82143A),
because I did not want to have print data messing up with my HP-IL data.

For data coming from HP-IL/HP-IB acquisition and instruments devices, I used ...
-> Modules: the extended I/O module (82183A) and sometime the Data Acquisition-Control Pac (44468A)
-> Reporting: the IL thermal printer (82162A), the impact printer (82905B) or the Thinkjet printer (2225B)
-> Viewing: the MC00701A 80 columns video interface (92198)

Sylvain