I spotted an HP 82905 printer on ebay. It was made by Epson. I’d never seen an HP-IB printer come up before, so I grabbed it. I figured that it would be cheaper to run than the thermal printer. I was hoping that it might be good for Centronics as well, but not so.
It needs the Plotter/Printer ROM, which I was surprised to find was not on my PRM-85 super ROM. See the post on the PRM-85.
The printer can be set to be the default printer:
PRINTER IS 701,80
where 7=GPIB and 01=GPIB address – set with DIP switches under secret panel on top of the printer.
I punched in the screen plotting program in Application Note: Copying CRT Graphics from the HP-83/85 to the 82905B.
