Subj : Re: Color version of "The Pri
To : J.B. Wood
From : Computer Nerd Kev
Date : Sat Jan 18 2020 12:49 am
J.B. Wood <
[email protected]> 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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