First, you'll need to get a Commodore to Centronics adapter. A company
called Xetec was a popular vendor with their Supergrafix line. Here's
an eBay link to one right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-64-128-Xetec-Super-Graphicjr-printer-adapter_W0QQi\
temZ300228106114QQihZ020QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

If the above link fails to work, just search eBay using these keywords:

printer commodore

and you'll see quite a few of them mixed in with assorted printers.
They appear to be going cheap.

Anyhow, you'll need that as a start. That will give you the centronics
connector (big one that's on most IBM compatible printers of the 80's
and 90's) to even establish a physical connection.

The rest of the story may be different. First, you'll need some sort
of compatibility mode in the printer. This means, regardless of the
brand of printer, there is a common "language" which the printer
recognizes to perform it's tasks. Epson compatibility was very popular
(I think Star was another, lesser compatibility). If your printer is
Epson compatible (the traditional Epson compatibility, check your
printer documentation), then regardless of it's native "language", it
will still recognize the once industry standard Epson printer codes.

The Xetec adapter may help with this compatibility, but I never
researched it. I have one of the Supergraphix adapters, but never
found the time to try it out. Basically because, other than having
Commodore specific printers already, the only Centronics capable
printer I have is a Laserjet 4MP. I'm not sure if the Xetec adapter
will work with it.

Now, you're referencing a modern Epson Stylus printer. These days,
even Epsons now aren't Epson compatible like the term was used years
ago. All I can suggest is try it and find out. You may need to do a
little research to find out for sure. My suggestion is this, looking
at the low prices for the Xetec adapters on eBay, if you have a few
bucks to burn, and want to play around with your Commodore equipment,
get one of them. It might come in handy someday.

Jeff
73, K1TUX

--- In classiccommodore@yahoogroups.com, K5HML - Harry <k5hml@...> wrote:
>
> Been lurking in the background for a while,
> reading the mail about printers.
> Was wondering --- Is there any way to interface
> an inkjet printer to either a C-64 or C-128?
> I still have my two 64's and 128 from back in the
> 1980s. Wonder if it's possible with, say, an
> Epson Stylus Color 600.