Re: Canon PJ-1080A

Got it shrunk down to a more manageable 81MB thanks to James. :)

http://lisaem.sunder.net/Canon%20PJ-8010A%20Color%20Ink-Jet%20Printer%20Operations%20Manual.pdf

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray.arachelian_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> Actually, it's more like 500Mb. If anyone has a way to shrink this down
> to a more reasonable size I'd appreciate it.
>
> Here's a link to it, please don't download this unless you've got a way to
> shrink it down.
>
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxjnupe3jtqu3lb/Canon%20PJ-8010A%20Color%20Ink-Jet%20Printer%20Operations%20Manual.pdf.zip?dl=0
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray.arachelian_at_email.domain.hidden
> > wrote:
>
>> 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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