The noise of the DMP2000 starting up (where the head does its check) takes me back...used to have one of these in the 90s attached to a 6128

Just fired up my DMP-1 for the first time in ages, totally forgot how much of a racket it makes. Nice to see I'm not the only one still printing things out on retro printers.

great vid mate glad you sorted the problem. weird how the original worked on test but not connected!

Yeah, the first printer even worked on my Amiga! Got there in the end though :)

BTW - If you need a replacement ribbon at any point for the printer it seems impossible to find a replacement (unless you want 100 units) but I managed to get mine working by purchasing a roll of typewriter ink ribbon but I was unable to find any the required width so I cut it down to size using a hot wire (search for "foam cutter" for more info, they are easy to build). I then tried joining the ends with some very thin tape but this did work but not very well, much better to join it using a plastic bag sealing device (search for "impulse sealer") which on max setting does a very good job. I bought myself a bottle of ink pad ink which does a good job of re-inking it.

Hey, thanks for the video. Nice to see someone else doing the same as me and coming up against issues. I bought a DMP 3160 a good while back. came with everything, box, inserts, manuals.. even the original plastic bags for the manuals, ribbon cable and printer etc. Sadly mine is a beige (yellowed) one, so doesn't look anywhere near as nice as yours. After hooking mine up and going to print a document, I got nothing from the amstrad(s). I tried it on an old laptop with a parallel port and it printed from there. So I have no idea what's going on with mine. I'll need to look into it at some point. I checked the dip switches etc, still nothing. No one on the CPC wiki had any pointers either sadly.