I have a Printronix P300 printer here in New Jersey that anyone that
wants to come pick it up, can have it free.
The printer does NOT work to the best of my knowledge. Many years ago we
had the 3 phase power coming into the building short across the building
power, and it toasted the power supplies to most of the equipment here.
This printer was one of the items that died. We had someone in to look at
it, and IIRC, they said the transformer was shot and would need to be
replaced. They wanted $400 for the job, we didn't want to pay it, so we
swapped the printer for a Citizen's dot matrix.
I kept the Printronix with the intent of one day fixing it myself, but
years later, we no longer have the system it went with (a Zebra and later
PCs running PICK OS), so I no longer care about fixing it.
I have the printer, a paper basket, and the "Applications Manual" (looks
like a normal user manual). I thought I had some extra ribbons for it,
but I don't see them (if I find them, then I will include them). The
printer is mounted on a rolling stand (I thought that was the only way
they came, but the manual pictures it without the stand). It uses wide
carriage tractor feed paper.
The printer is rated as a 300 LPM (that's Lines Per Minute, so it is WAY
faster than your standard 300 Characters Per Minute dot matrix printer).
The connector on the back is a Centronics looking connector, and the
manual says it is a Parallel printer, but I could have sworn it was
connected to a port on the Digi-Board, which would have made it a serial
printer. I'm probably remembering wrong as to how it was connected, and
it probably is a parallel interface, but I can't say for 100% sure. (I
know its replacement was a parallel printer)
This thing is large, and heavy, so shipping is out of the question. If
anyone wants it, they can come pick it up. I can hold on to it for a
while, so it doesn't have to be an ASAP pickup (heck, I've been storing
it now for about 8 years, what's another few months or so).
I can post a picture if any one is interested.
-chris
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Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 10:31:00 BST