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Commodore VIC-1515 and VIC-1525


cbm/printers/vic1515.gif With the arrival of the VIC-20 came a series of low cost, consumer-friendly printers to bring out the Computer in the Game-focused VIC. The VIC-1515 is a great example of it, as it is little more than a foot in width; seeming more a toy printer than a serious peripheral.

These units have the most unusal printing mechanism ever made. They use a rotating ribbed drum behind the paper and a single uni-hammer that hits the paper (through the ribbon) and bangs on the drum when a ridge is in the proper place to make a single dot. Hence each dot is produced individualy. Normal printers used a multi wire printhead and created 8 or 9 dots at a time banging against a fixed platen. These printer mechanisms were manufactured by Seikosha.



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Model     : VIC-1515
Type      : Dot matrix printer
Resolution: 7x6 pin
Paper Feed: Tractor-feed
Interface : CBM Serial Bus
Notes     : Very "cute"


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Model     : VIC-1525
Type      : Dot matrix printer
Resolution: 7x6 pin
Paper Feed: Tractor-feed
Interface : CBM Serial Bus
Notes     :



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