Re: Canon PJ-1080A

I have a scanned version of this manual, one showed up on eBay 6mo-1year ago, but the resulting PDF is huge since it's color. The smallest I've gotten it down to is about 50mb.

I can put it up somewhere if there's interest.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Tom Stepleton <stepleton_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just got a Canon PJ-1080A, known in Lisa-land as the "Canon Ink Jet
> Printer." No manual was included.
>
> Unfrotunately, I haven't had any success getting the Canon to work on my
> Lisa. I have been able to print ordinary text from an IBM PC, though, *a
> la*
>
> C:\DOS> DIR > PRN
>
> prints the directory listing to the printer without trouble. QBASIC
> programs running on the PC seem to work, too (at least as far as sending
> bytes out to the printer goes). But the doesn't work with the Lisa. So:
>
> *QUESTIONS*
>
> 1. I connect the Lisa 2/10 to the Canon via a known-good port on a
> parallel port card (verified by booting a ProFile attached thereon) using a
> DB-25 male connector (Lisa side) to a 36-pin male Centronics connector
> (Printer side) cable---in other words, a conventional printer cable used to
> hook old PCs with parallel ports to old printers with Centronics connectors.
>
> The Lisa complains about not being able to communicate with the Ink Jet
> Printer. *Could there be an adaptor or different kind of cable used
> between the Lisa and parallel printers than what's used with PCs?*
>
> 2. I've been trying to see how much a PJ-1080A my Canon really is. Rumor
> has it that they were available with multiple different ROMs, and rebadged
> under multiple guises. Canon, for example, seems to have rebadged the
> PJ-1080A as the CGP-220
> <http://support.radioshack.com/support_accessories/5304.htm>, but some
> sources (e.g. [1]
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.tandy/e6LsgrAStHQ/C02w8DfgU7kJ>
> [2]
> <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1cFKG5xg1DkJ:www.programd.com/80_74bdd8fa9283eca7_1.htm+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>)
> suggest that the ROM is different; anyway, CGP-220 control codes don't seem
> to work with my PJ-1080A, at least not all of them.
>
> *Does anyone happen to know the control codes for the PJ-1080A?*
>
> 3. *Does anyone have a scanned PJ-1080A manual?*
>
> Thanks,
> --Tom
>
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