Home Automation FAQ: What kind of printer can I use with a PIC-DIO/DIO-Link?

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	Home Automation FAQ : HA Equipment : Creative Control Concepts/HCS-II : PIC-DIO Digital I/O Module : What kind of printer can I use with a PIC-DIO/DIO-Link?
	You can connect just about any Centronics based printer to your HCS-II via PIC-DIO's or DIO-Links. Laser printers are not recommended since the HCS-II prints raw text and you generally will not see the output from the HCS-II until it fills a page or sends a form-feed command. If noise is an issue, you should use a thermal printer. They are very quiet when printing. If noise is not an issue, pick up a cheap (or free) dot matrix printer. Try to get a printer that has some type of input buffer so you can blast text to it without worrying about backing data up in the PIC-DIO.
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