---
title: "2068/1520 Printer Interface"
id: 11565
type: "product"
slug: "2068-1520-printer-interface-complete-kit"
url: "http://localhost/product/2068-1520-printer-interface-complete-kit/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/2068-1520-printer-interface-complete-kit.md"
published_at: "2019-11-30T01:42:41+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:13:31+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Interface to connect a TS 2068 to the Commodore 1520 plotter. Later available with driver for Okimate 20 printer. The Commodore 1520 was was a small, four color pen plotter, built on an ALPS DPG1302 plotter mechanism. The same mechanism was used in the Atari 1020, the Radio Shack CGP-115 and a number of others.…"
category:
  - name: "Printer"
    slug: "printer"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/hardware/printer/"
post_tag:
  - name: "John McMichael"
    slug: "john-mcmichael"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/john-mcmichael/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
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    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
genre:
  - name: "Hardware"
    slug: "hardware"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/hardware/"
  - name: "Printer"
    slug: "printer"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/printer/"
company:
  id: 10989
  title: "John McMichael"
  type: "company"
  url: "http://localhost/company/john-mcmichael/"
price: 20.95
date: 1987
rarity: "Uncommon"
product_reviews:
  - id: 58891
    title: "Commodore 1520 Plotter"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/commodore-1520-plotter/"
  - id: 58892
    title: "A 2068 Quickie"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/a-2068-quickie/"
  - id: 58893
    title: "Jim’s Programming Notes"
    type: "article"
    url: "http://localhost/article/jims-programming-notes-3/"
articles:
  - article:
      id: 21610
      title: "A Screen Copy in Full Color and More"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/a-screen-copy-in-full-color-and-more/"
  - article:
      id: 23292
      title: "Color Printouts"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/color-printouts/"
  - article:
      id: 15367
      title: "For Your Sinclair: New Releases"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/for-your-sinclair-new-releases-2/"
  - article:
      id: 14960
      title: "Newsletter Notes"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/newsletter-notes/"
  - article:
      id: 15469
      title: "The TS2068 and the Commodore 1520 Plotter"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/the-ts2068-and-the-commodore-1520-plotter/"
adverts:
  - publication:
      - id: 26492
        title: "Update January 1988"
        type: "issue"
        url: "http://localhost/issue/ts-2068-up-date-january-1988/"
    advert_page: "32"
companies_products:
  - id: 10989
    title: "John McMichael"
    type: "company"
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---

Interface to connect a TS 2068 to the Commodore 1520 plotter. Later available with driver for Okimate 20 printer.

The Commodore 1520 was was a small, four color pen plotter, built on an ALPS DPG1302 plotter mechanism. The same mechanism was used in the [Atari 1020,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1020) the [Radio Shack CGP-115](http://tandy.wiki/CGP-115) and a number of others.

Supplied with a printer driver on cassette.

Available as a bare board, a kit and assembled and tested.