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Great afternoon!
So I'm working with someone who owns a small car dealership and they want the Windows 8 Release Preview with 7 in dual boot on their machines as they want it and will mitigate to it. I was introduced to a Compaq desktop PC running Xp Media Center that now runs Windows 7 perfectly fine, but having a couple driver issues in 8.
But that's not the point. One of their devices, or should I say an anchor, is a dot-matrix printer. Yes, an almost 15 year old printer. Never have seen one in almost my entire life up until now. Funny how I'm installing new software technology along side outdated hardware.
Now, the printer in question is an Epson LQ-870. I was tasked in getting it to work with Windows. But after some research, I've found it is literally futile, or is it?
Does anyone have any tricks or tips or suggestions up their sleeves as to getting this to work? I've tried the driver install, but Windows detects it as incompatible and won't run, as I'm assuming it's a 16 bit device. It's one a serial to USB adapter and Windows detects it as a USB print device, and doesn't obviously print.
I don't know why, but old technology freaks me out.....
So I'm working with someone who owns a small car dealership and they want the Windows 8 Release Preview with 7 in dual boot on their machines as they want it and will mitigate to it. I was introduced to a Compaq desktop PC running Xp Media Center that now runs Windows 7 perfectly fine, but having a couple driver issues in 8.
But that's not the point. One of their devices, or should I say an anchor, is a dot-matrix printer. Yes, an almost 15 year old printer. Never have seen one in almost my entire life up until now. Funny how I'm installing new software technology along side outdated hardware.
Now, the printer in question is an Epson LQ-870. I was tasked in getting it to work with Windows. But after some research, I've found it is literally futile, or is it?
Does anyone have any tricks or tips or suggestions up their sleeves as to getting this to work? I've tried the driver install, but Windows detects it as incompatible and won't run, as I'm assuming it's a 16 bit device. It's one a serial to USB adapter and Windows detects it as a USB print device, and doesn't obviously print.
I don't know why, but old technology freaks me out.....
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- AMD FX 8320
- Motherboard
- Crosshair V Formula-Z
- Memory
- 16 gig DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS R9 270
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Seagate Barracuda (starting to hate Seagate)
x2 3 TB Toshibas
Windows 8.1 is installed on a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB
- PSU
- OCZ 500 watt
- Case
- A current work in progres as I'll be building the physical case myself. It shall be fantastic.
- Cooling
- Arctic Cooler with 3 heatpipes
- Keyboard
- Logitech K750 wireless solar powered keyboard
- Mouse
- Microsoft Touch Mouse
- Browser
- Internet Explorer 11
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender, but I might go back on KIS 2014