• Color version of "The Pri

    From Ron Lauzon@1:275/89 to Brandon Taylor on Sun Jan 12 09:48:00 2020
    Brandon Taylor wrote to All <=-

    1. Was there ever a color version of "The Print Shop" available for the Commodore 8-bit family of computers?

    I don't believe so. I used to work for a Commodore reseller back in the day, and I don't recall there being a color printer option for the C64.

    There probably were color printers at the time, but they would have been priced
    far above what a C64 user could have paid.

    So there would have been no demand for a C64 color Print Shop.


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  • From J.B. Wood@3:770/3 to Ron Lauzon on Fri Jan 17 12:22:16 2020
    On 1/11/20 3:48 PM, Ron Lauzon wrote:
    Brandon Taylor wrote to All <=-

    BT> 1. Was there ever a color version of "The Print Shop" available for
    the
    BT> Commodore 8-bit family of computers?

    I don't believe so. I used to work for a Commodore reseller back in the
    day,
    and I don't recall there being a color printer option for the C64.

    There probably were color printers at the time, but they would have been
    priced
    far above what a C64 user could have paid.

    So there would have been no demand for a C64 color Print Shop.




    Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint
    pens. Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been
    available that would use it, though. Sincerely,

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to J.B. Wood on Sat Jan 18 00:49:44 2020
    J.B. Wood <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On 1/11/20 3:48 PM, Ron Lauzon wrote:
    Brandon Taylor wrote to All <=-

    BT> 1. Was there ever a color version of "The Print Shop" available for the
    BT> Commodore 8-bit family of computers?

    I don't believe so. I used to work for a Commodore reseller back in the day,
    and I don't recall there being a color printer option for the C64.

    There probably were color printers at the time, but they would have been priced
    far above what a C64 user could have paid.

    So there would have been no demand for a C64 color Print Shop.

    Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint
    pens. Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been
    available that would use it, though. Sincerely,

    The VIC-1520 plotter. Not the same as a conventional colour printer,
    but fun (possibly more fun) anyway: http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/peserial2.html

    Looking further through the printer listing on that site, a few
    other Commodore serial printers with colour support are described
    there:

    MPS-1224c:
    http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/plserial2.html

    MCS-810 (I've got one of these! But never had a ribbon for it and
    the head's worn out (probably from me printing on heat-sensitive
    paper as a solution to the ribbon problem)): http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs810.html
    - Rebadged Okimate 10 printers, so there's an entry point for
    researching colour printers from other manufacturers.

    MCS-801:
    http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs801.html

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  • From Brandon Taylor@3:770/3 to All on Sat Jan 18 15:34:17 2020
    Yeah, well, as J.B. Wood just said, even if you had a color /printer,/ you couldn't really use it to its full potential on an 8-bit Commodore machine, as there wasn't any /software/ that printed in color. No, I think the best bet would have been an Apple
    II series machine, or else an "IBM-compatible" PC. On the other hand, a Commodore enthusiast would have to wait a little while for the Amiga series to show up. In that case, what was the best software for color printing on an Amiga?

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Brandon Taylor on Sun Jan 19 12:52:54 2020
    On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:34:17 -0800 (PST), Brandon Taylor wrote:

    Yeah, well, as J.B. Wood just said, even if you had a color /printer,/
    you couldn't really use it to its full potential on an 8-bit Commodore machine, as there wasn't any /software/ that printed in color. No, I
    think the best bet would have been an Apple II series machine, or else
    an "IBM-compatible" PC. On the other hand, a Commodore enthusiast
    would have to wait a little while for the Amiga series to show up. In
    that case, what was the best software for color printing on an Amiga?

    IIRC we got :decent" results with Deluxe Paint. I cannot remember what
    printer it was. It was in the later 1980s and was a dot matrix machine
    with a colored ribbon.
    --
    Andreas

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  • From Silver Dream !@3:770/3 to J.B. Wood on Thu Oct 15 01:08:27 2020
    On 17/01/2020 18:22, J.B. Wood wrote:

    Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint
    pens.  Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been
    available that would use it, though.  Sincerely,

    It was marketed as "printer/plotter", which was true. From certain point
    of view :-)

    It was good for plotting line graphics and it had the ability to plot
    text, with a nice vector font...

    http://e4aws.silverdr.com/hacks/6500_1/

    You can find the font about mid-page down there.

    But I would not recommend to use the plotter to colour-fill any sizeable
    paper area. Or "print" longer BASIC listings (as I myself tried back in
    the days :-)

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