Re: Printers - a list of those that can do long prints?

[Peter Shute <pshute@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:14:18 +1100, pshute@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Shute)
wrote:

>Does anyone know of a website that lists these models properly?

It appears that noone has actually sat down and made a list of which
models can do "banner" prints. Apart from the models people have
mentioned in their replies, I'm still left seaching printer
manufacturers' websites.  It's very frustrating because often the very
latest printers aren't listed, and also a lot of older models.

One thing that confuses me is that NONE of the websites I've looked in
mentions the actual length limit. The only clue they give is that
"banner" printing is allowed. Then they give the size of the "banner"
paper as either A4 or Letter!  At first I thought "banner" must be a
type of special paper, but I'm beginning to suspect that they are
referring to fanfold paper!

Is this correct? If so, don't the folds in the paper cause a quality
problem? Is it possible to put in a long, uncreased, strip of paper?
If so, is there any special technique to get it to work? (HP 810
manual says there must be at least 15 sheets in tray for it to work.)

If fanfold paper must be used then I feel that I might as well just
use A4 sheets and stick them together.

As for the actual limits, 44" has often been mentioned in this list
for Epsons.  I've no clue at all for other brands, although I think I
saw 5' mentioned on a box of banner paper for the HP695C. The HP
website has a document dealing with the programming required to print
"banners" from DOS. It reveals that all that is happening is that
successive A4 or Letter (only) pages will be printed without a gap or
formfeed in between in banner mode. This would imply that there is no
hardware limit, but that the printer driver would be required to
assemble a series of pages. I suspect that there would be a limit to
what the HP driver would allow. Anyone know what it is?

I wonder if one of the hardware newsgroups would be a better source of
information?


Peter Shute