Retro-Printer Helping to Archive the Past
The Retro-Printer has been used by the University of Calgary to assist them in their preservation project. One of their main preservation projects has been to archive and preserve the wealth of media recordings made by EMI Music Canada over
v4 Retro-Printer Module Now Available
It has been a long journey, battling against hardware development, software development, changes in the Raspberry Pi and manufacturing issues; but we are here at last with the release of the full v4 Retro-Printer Module which brings the nice neat
USB-RTC Module Released
We have now released a USB-RTC (Real-Time Clock) Module. This uses the DS2321 precision chip to ensure that the retained time remains accurate. The USB-RTC Module plugs into the USB slot of a Raspberry Pi / Odroid / Banana Pi
Retro-Printer Module in Use with an Amiga
The Amiga Show have published their latest online episode, which features a great review of the v3 Retro-Printer Module: It was interesting to see the printout achieved from a couple of different programs on the Commodore Amiga home computer and
Supporting more Industrial Applications
We have had a couple of more successes with demonstrating the Retro-Printer’s benefits for industrial applications. Maguire Gravimetric Blenders The first is a company who needed to capture the data from various Maguire Gravimetric Blenders (WSB series with old 6811
How the Retro-Printer is Assisting Industry
We have now worked alongside several companies to provide them with a solution for capturing output from industrial machines electronically. Thanks to our long-term connection with leading industrial controls company (Michael Jackson Controls Limited), we have been able to understand
v3.5 Software Release
We have today released v3.5 of the Retro-Printer Software, which takes into account user feedback and requests. This includes: Speed improvements to the Epson ESC/P2 Convertor Ability to specify the number of bits to be interpreted from the centronics port.
Adding Emulation to Texas Instruments TI-99 4/a
The TI-99 4/A Computer was released in 1983 by Texas Instruments. As with most vintage computers, it suffers with the inability to print on most modern printers and so would have been an ideal candidate for our Retro-Printer module, had
More updates and v3.4 Software Release
Latest Updates The v4 Retro-Printer Module is now at long last signed off – we are just waiting on the final production samples for testing. We expect to have these in stock from May 2020. We have successfully tested the
Retro-Printer v3 Feedback & Further Development
Retro-Printer Module Feedback Despite the issues with the v3 module itself, now that we are supplying a custom centronics adaptor, feedback continues to be very positive – for example: I’m very happy with my RetroPrinter. I can now use it
