Post B86rW7yN2vX9czFMUC by stylus@social.afront.org
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 (DIR) Post #B86p8loZ41EqKwOWo4 by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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       Any vintage printer enthusiasts in the house?I was given a 1984 Toshiba P1340 printer to make a vintage printing station for a public event. Printing simple text from DOS is a breeze, but I'm yet to accomplish *anything* beyond that. Print Shop & its clones don't directly support it. And selecting suggested compatibles doesn't seem to work either. Not my field of expertise, so I'm at a loss. Any suggestions?(EDIT: I have no manual for it, or any other kind of documentation.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B86rW7yN2vX9czFMUC by stylus@social.afront.org
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       @dosnostalgic A hint here: The P1340 uses ”Qume Sprint 5” codes (or Diablo 1610), so most software is easily installed. Because it does microjustification (rare in dot-matrix printers), your word processing software can vary the width of each letter and produce true proportional spacing.https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/06/23/three-new-printers-run-gamut-of-quality-price/
       
 (DIR) Post #B86sFRGa9w9yUuN4MK by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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       @stylus Yeah, I've seen it. Not a good enough hint for me.
       
 (DIR) Post #B86t9t4twYSGyDpA4e by stylus@social.afront.org
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       @dosnostalgic I haven't been able to find any further info about this printer.
       
 (DIR) Post #B86tjmouggJfzFSpCS by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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       @vga256 Yeah, I already got the 351 driver (from a Russian driver CD from the 90s). Haven't really tried it, as I kind of want to avoid dealing with Windows 3.x
       
 (DIR) Post #B86u8wM8N2DinjzrvM by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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       @vga256 That's why I was asking vintage printer enthusiasts. It's a printer that does support ASCII printing, and some generic early 80s codes. SURELY there must be ways of actually using it, it's just they are arcane knowledge held by few these days.
       
 (DIR) Post #B879yum4zhzeGcNFuC by david@theblower.au
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       @dosnostalgic I presume you’ve already found the service manual ?  https://manualmachine.com/toshiba/1340/5853923-service-handbook/#google_vignette(Not the greatest of sites, but it does seem to contain the service manual, which is less useful to you for printing purposes, but might be handy if something isn’t right).
       
 (DIR) Post #B886hyFuh0aPR7W9AW by wbpeckham@techhub.social
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       @dosnostalgic I remember having a tight and tiny little sparkjet printer back in the 1970s. I think between the time I ordered it and the time it arrived, the company stopped selling them. It came with pretty good documentation, so I wrote a little TSR print driver to make it emulate a plotter so I could use a CAD program and make black and white plots. If you had adequate documentation for this printer, I don't see any reason why you couldn't write your own print driver.  Finding that documentation is the challenge now. I wish you the best of luck.