Honeywell/Matrix TT200 printer

UvA Computer Museum catalogue nr 13.07

TT200 printer

The TT200 (1991) prints colour pictures onto sheets of paper or transparencies with 200 dpi by a thermal dye transfer process. In four steps black, yellow, magenta and cyan dye is transfered pixel by pixel by heating from a paper-wide ribbon to the paper surface. In this way eight colours can be produced: red, green, blue and white, besides the pure dye colours. If the external Matrix MVP graphics co-processor (a PC-AT plug-in board) is used, 256 colours can be obtained by dithering, at the cost of lower resolution.

The picture shows the opened printer. The freshly (2013) printed test sheet (over the left edge) is to show that the printer is still operating properly after more than 20 years of rest.
The printer was sold in The Netherlands for Dfl 13400 with an additional Dfl 6000 for the MVP board. The price per copy was about Dfl 3 for transparencies (materials cost only).

Our TT200 was donated by Mr. Hans Höcker, formerly at Energie Centrum Nederland (ECN) in Petten. The printer was primarily used at ECN for making overhead projector sheets for presentations. It was very soon superseded by beamer-based presentation hardware.

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