J.B. Wood  wrote:
> On 1/11/20 3:48 PM, Ron Lauzon wrote:
>> -=> Brandon Taylor wrote to All <=-
>>
>>   BT> 1. Was there ever a color version of "The Print Shop" available for
the
>>   BT> Commodore 8-bit family of computers?
>>
>> I don't believe so.  I used to work for a Commodore reseller back in the
day,
>> and I don't recall there being a color printer option for the C64.
>>
>> There probably were color printers at the time, but they would have been
priced
>> far above what a C64 user could have paid.
>>
>> So there would have been no demand for a C64 color Print Shop.
>
> Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint
> pens.  Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been
> available that would use it, though.  Sincerely,

The VIC-1520 plotter. Not the same as a conventional colour printer,
but fun (possibly more fun) anyway:
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/peserial2.html

Looking further through the printer listing on that site, a few
other Commodore serial printers with colour support are described
there:

MPS-1224c:
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/plserial2.html

MCS-810 (I've got one of these! But never had a ribbon for it and
the head's worn out (probably from me printing on heat-sensitive
paper as a solution to the ribbon problem)):
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs810.html
 - Rebadged Okimate 10 printers, so there's an entry point for
   researching colour printers from other manufacturers.

MCS-801:
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/pmcs801.html

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