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Apr 12, 2023
A Need to Have Book
Great book, and a necessary one to have for the Apple II.
May 19, 2022
A bargain for an inexpensive dot matrix printer.
2 of 3 found this helpful This GSX-190II is a great little printer, essentially a clone of the old Epson MX-80 F/T, RX-80 and FX-80 series.
It comes with x86 (32 bit) and 64 bit drivers and will work with any brand of Windows from Windows 98 to at least Windows 10. Caution, however, the drivers are not signed, so for Windows Vista and up you need to disable the signed driver requirement in order to install them. Google "disable driver signature for Windows" to get the work around.
The Epson 8750 cloth ribbon looks to be the replacement equivalent for this printer. This is also the ribbon that the MX-RX-FX series used. I don't believe the Citizen GSX-190 ribbon is a fit. The JMR108 ribbon, the direct replacement, might be hard to come by except for Alibaba or eBay through Asia. Google it.
Printer works with three different interfaces: standard USB A-B cable, CN36 (36-pin Centronix parallel port), and 25 pin serial.
I'm using mine with Windows 10 and the UGREEN USB to Parallel Port USB to IEEE1284 CN36 Centronics Printer Cable Adapter, available on Amazon. Install will be to LPT1. I will also be using it on my old DOS system and for my even older Apple IIe (DOS has been verified to work too = no driver necessary there).
If installing driver for USB A-B cable, please note that Windows plug & play will auto-install a generic driver when you attach the cable. Delete this printer and go with the one you are installing via the Setup.exe. For the USB A-B install, be sure the printer hardware shows on USB Virtual port USB001 or USB002, not LPT1.
Printer has tractor feed or cut sheet feed. Printer will do graphics, but by dot matrix of course. Text quality is not perfect but is okay, just recognize this is a dot matrix printer, and for $100.
I've found it a good deal for my hobbyist needs.