Atari 822 Thermal
Printer Manual
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The Atari 822 40 Column Thermal Printer
| The Atari 822 printer was
Atari's 2nd printer. With a width of 40 column just
like the Atari 820. It was a thermal printer. By
heating up patterns on its print head and passing the print
head over a special heat sensitive paper it was able to
produce letters, numbers and even graphics onto the paper.
Because it was a thermal
printer, it made almost no noise and was good for times with
a whisper quiet printer was necessary.
The Atari 822 is actually a
rebadged Trendcom 100 printer with special interfacing
within it to be an Atari SIO device. Trendcom sold its
printers independently and also under the Apple Computer
badge of its 100 and 200 (an 80 column version of the same
design) for the Apple ][ line of computers using a special
interface card that plugged into an Apple ][ slot.
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Trendcom 200 - Badged as an Apple
Silentype.
Work in
Progress, updated 4/23/2019 |
