About Each Printer
The #FujiNet emulates a wide variety of printers, rendering each into an output format appropriate for each printer type, usually PDF.
The Atari 820 is a printer made by Atari from 1979 until 1982. It was Atari's first released printer, and has styling to match the Atari 810 disk drive, very closely.
It plugs directly into the SIO port, and has a pass-through connector for daisy-chaining other peripherals.
It uses a standard adding-machine roll paper 3 3/4" in diameter, which allows for 40 columns of text in normal orientation.
There is a sideways mode, which prints each character flipped 90 degrees on its side relative to the top of the paper.
The Atari 822 is a thermal printer that Atari licensed from Trendcom from 1980 until 1982. It uses special thermal paper, which reacts with heat emitted from the print head to form the dots on the paper. Because of this, it was very silent, compared to dot matrix and daisy wheel printers.
It also plugs into the SIO port, and provides a pass-through connector for daisy chaining other peripherals.
Atari licensed the printer design from Trendcom, and it is most like the Trendcom Model 100.
The Atari 822 was unique of all the Atari printers for its ability to print bitmapped graphics of approximately 280 dots across.
The Atari 825 was produced from 1980 until 1982, and was a re-badged Centronics 737 parallel port printer. As such, it did not directly connect to the Atari serial bus, but required a separate Atari 850 interface.
Unlike the Atari 820 and 822 printers, the 825 had a carriage that could print 80 characters wide at 10 characters per inch, and supported several different fonts, including proportional text output.
The printer could also support reverse line feeds, and could thus be coaxed into producing multiple column output from programs such as Text Wizard and AtariWriter.
Atari licensed a small plotter from ALPS, and produced the 1020 from 1983 until 1985. The 1020 had four colored pens: black, red, blue, and green, which could be individually used to draw calligraphic shapes onto the paper.
Its design was similar to the Atari 1010 cassette recorder.
The printer itself had a font in ROM which the printer could draw with its pens to output text, albeit very slowly.
The FujiNet implementation outputs to SVG, and is currently missing the font for accurate text output, but is otherwise completely implemented.
