Subj : Re: Color version of "The Pri To : J.B. Wood From : Computer Nerd Kev Date : Sat Jan 18 2020 00:49:44 J.B. Wood wrote: > On 1/11/20 3:48 PM, Ron Lauzon wrote: >> -=> Brandon Taylor wrote to All <=- >> >> BT> 1. Was there ever a color version of "The Print Shop" available for the >> BT> Commodore 8-bit family of computers? >> >> I don't believe so. I used to work for a Commodore reseller back in the day, >> and I don't recall there being a color printer option for the C64. >> >> There probably were color printers at the time, but they would have been priced >> far above what a C64 user could have paid. >> >> So there would have been no demand for a C64 color Print Shop. > > Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint > pens. Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been > available that would use it, though. Sincerely, The VIC-1520 plotter. Not the same as a conventional colour printer, but fun (possibly more fun) anyway: http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/peserial2.html Looking further through the printer listing on that site, a few other Commodore serial printers with colour support are described there: MPS-1224c: http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/plserial2.html MCS-810 (I've got one of these! But never had a ribbon for it and the head's worn out (probably from me printing on heat-sensitive paper as a solution to the ribbon problem)): http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs810.html - Rebadged Okimate 10 printers, so there's an entry point for researching colour printers from other manufacturers. MCS-801: http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs801.html -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _# --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .