PIC to Printer

I need some tips to use PIC to drive printer. Printer requires 8 bits data. What is the data looks like ? It is similar method used to drive LCD ?

thanks

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Originally Posted by mychangl

I need some tips to use PIC to drive printer. Printer requires 8 bits data. What is the data looks like ? It is similar method used to drive LCD ?

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Could you be a little bit more vague as to what style of printer you are trying to drive?
As far as we know, you're trying to drive (as in drive a truck) your printer (as in a person who prints) from point A to point B.

check those
http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...05&postcount=7

and this
http://www.phanderson.com/stamp/i2c/print1.html

Thanks mister_e. Let me digest the information.

I plan to connect a dot matrix printer to record any event ( periodic temperature reading ) in form of hard copy rather than save it in seeprom.