Serial InkJet 96 DPI questions

Buck Rogers

Hello!
I thought I'd ask here first.
Is this critter "96 dpi Serial Inkjet Printer Kit (#27949)" still available? I confess that the search engine on the home page is trying to convince me that it never heard of it before today.

As most of you know by now I get some darned strange ideas, and this one surfaced while visiting a Radio Shack some days ago, in their drawers on sensors, I saw there a Parallax designed RFID kit, and assorted sensors.

My idea? To have a Basic Stamp sense a tag, and instead of displaying it on an LCD screen, to print it out on plain paper using that critter.

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Buck Rogers

www.gregg.levine.name

Zoot

No, it isn't made nor sold any more.

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Gadgetman

You may want to look for a printing calculator as some of them use similar parts.
Particularly, Canon calculators use the same printhead and cartridge, and possibly many of the same chips, too.
(You'll have to study the kit documentation for adapting the parts, drivers and such, though. )

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Ken Gracey

If any developers with embedded design skills and production capabilities want to build this product again, Parallax is willing to hand over the whole product package (firmware, PCB, source code, BOM, software, etc.).

Serious inquiries only please.

Thanks,

Ken Gracey

Kevin Cook

Here are the bulk of the files. If you need more information email me at support@parallax.com

Design Files: Code.zip
Code: Board Design.zip
Documents: Serial InkJet Printer schematic Rev B.pdf

Matt Gilliland

and if you're looking for some other technical info on how to roll your own from scratch...

$WMc%

This is why I'm here at the Parallax forums and not on some other forum.
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What other company would release this kind of info? InkjetDocs-v1.1.pdf
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And then offer Tech support for a DIY project.!!! other technical info
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Many thanks to the Staff at Parallax.