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    From Charles Gutman@3:770/3 to All on Monday, November 26, 2018 22:06:39
    First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade, stepping on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me regarding something I'd like to have for the C=
    Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet? I have a very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on.
    I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them.

    Thanks so much

    Charles

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Charles Gutman on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 17:07:14
    On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:06:39 -0800 (PST), Charles Gutman wrote:

    First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade,
    stepping on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me
    regarding something I'd like to have for the C=
    Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet? I
    have a very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on.
    I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them.

    I found some videos on Youtube people connecting a C64 to the internet
    with WIFI. Google for it (commodore 64 wifi).

    One even carried his breadbox to a Starbucks to have a latte. :-)

    No idea though if you can go from there to connect to a WIFI enabled
    printer.
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    Andreas

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to Charles Gutman on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 21:26:46
    Charles Gutman <charlesgutman@gmail.com> wrote:
    First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade,
    stepping on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me
    regarding something I'd like to have for the C=
    Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet?
    I have a very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on.
    I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them.

    The modems will be the tool for the job, either with WiFi themselves,
    or connected to a wifi router. WiFi printers connect over networking
    just the same as is required for internet access. The difficulty will
    be with the software. If your laser printer really is a good one, it
    might support postscript printing, which is a format that's
    standardised (unlike the printer-specific proprietary formats that
    inkjet printers and home/cheap-office laser printers use). That
    shouldn't need anything fancy like compression, so a C64 would
    be able to do it with some custom software and an existing
    ethernet/WiFi adapter.

    Or you could rig up something like a Raspberry Pi Zero W with
    a hardware interface and emulator software so that it connects
    to the C64 in place of an original Commodore printer,
    converting all the output from the C64 to a format that can
    be sent through the normal Linux printing dirvers. Then the
    Pi would use it's own built-in WiFi. The advantage with that
    would be that it would work with printing functions in
    existing Commodore software, and you could use all the PETSCII
    characters (converted to an image for the modern printer using
    the Pi).

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  • From Bo Zimmerman@3:770/3 to Charles Gutman on Friday, January 11, 2019 13:32:56
    On 11/27/2018 12:06 AM, Charles Gutman wrote:
    First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade, stepping
    on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me regarding something I'd like to have for the C=
    Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet? I have a
    very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on.
    I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them.

    Thanks so much

    Charles


    I desperately want this also, and for the same reason. I've been trying
    to head in the direction of adding CURL support to my WiFi modem
    firmware, since that gets around having to support thousands of printer drivers, but I hit a wall when i discovered that my printer isn't really supported by the linux community. :(

    - Bo

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  • From Rob Swindell to Bo Zimmerman on Friday, January 11, 2019 15:13:25
    Re: Re: Thought?
    By: Bo Zimmerman to Charles Gutman on Fri Jan 11 2019 01:32 pm

    I desperately want this also, and for the same reason. I've been trying
    to head in the direction of adding CURL support to my WiFi modem
    firmware, since that gets around having to support thousands of printer drivers, but I hit a wall when i discovered that my printer isn't really supported by the linux community. :(

    Maybe you mean CUPS?

    digital man

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