82162a printer line spacing

[Vincent Weber]

Interesting, many thanks !
So why did some people (Eric Smith and Thomas Okken) wrote about the 82162a controlling the line gap ? Maybe they confused it with the IR printer ?
Cf. the following threads:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...read=86122
http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...read=68911

It seems to me that the graphics difference between the 143 and the 182 are only about the larger print buffer, to allow barcode printing, which has nothing to do with the line spacing...

Btw even the short buffer of the 143 allows nice plotting, see the remarkable "high resolution plot" program from the PPC rom. I don't think the larger buffer would improve it. Only maybe if you try to print 8 to 9 curves at the same time - which is quite insane for this kind of small printer. Definitely the 7470a plotter would be the way to go instead ! Still very slow though

Cheers