Looking for a serial (RS232) printer

Factual Questions
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Or a serial-to-parallel converter so I can use one of my existing dot-matrix printers?

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Serial printers will not work well on parallel, you should be able to find either a serial to USB or an add on serial port for your PC.

What kind of machine are you hooking the printer to?

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It is a SiteSentinel 1 tank gauge. The default printer that comes with the device is a Seiko DPU-414 but it is slow and the thermal paper is hard to find and expensive.

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[QUOTE=Dog80]
It is a SiteSentinel 1 tank gauge. The default printer that comes with the device is a Seiko DPU-414 but it is slow and the thermal paper is hard to find and expensive.
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We purchased fast Okidata Serial printers for this purpose. I do not believe there is any good way to use a Parallel printer on the serial port of a control box.

Okidata and Epson still make many fast serial impact printers.

Jim

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]
We purchased fast Okidata Serial printers for this purpose. I do not believe there is any good way to use a Parallel printer on the serial port of a control box.

Okidata and Epson still make many fast serial impact printers.

Jim
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We use this parallel to serial bidirectional converter with our serial printers here at my job with no problems.

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[QUOTE=Dragwyr]
We use this parallel to serial bidirectional converter with our serial printers here at my job with no problems.
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Never saw one of those before. Looks like a winner. Do you use them with just PCs or with any control boxes?

Jim