82162a printer line spacing

[Thomas Okken]

(11-06-2016 09:47 AM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  So why did some people (Eric Smith and Thomas Okken) wrote about the 82162a controlling the line gap ?

I believe I read that somewhere and then foolishly repeated it without even trying to verify it. I don't remember for sure, but I suspect the "Nantucket" picture in HP Key Notes was the main contributing factor to this misunderstanding:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/pdf/KeyNotes_198...es_OCR.pdf (page 9), http://www.hpmuseum.net/pdf/KeyNotes_198...es_OCR.pdf (page 3), and http://www.hpmuseum.net/pdf/Keynotes_198...es_OCR.pdf (page 4).

Note this line in particular, from V6N3: "it nicely illustrates the expanded graphics of the HP 82162A Thermal Printer." Turns out that that was referring to the larger buffer, which made it possible to print bit-mapped graphics across the entire width of the printable area... but it was *not* about the ability to control line spacing, as finally revealed in V7N1.

It didn't help that HP Key Notes was in its death throes by then and the wait between issues had become somewhat agonizing!