Re: Most modern color printer for IIGS?

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:45:59 GMT, Slick@noSPAMplease.net (Slick)
wrote:

>Man, am I behind the times. I don't have a clue as to what half those
>abbreviations mean. What I'm looking for is a color printer that I can
>share with my IIGS and Mac (aka SERIAL ONLY) same as I do with the IW2,
>but something that preferably does color a little better.  I have doubts
>that the ancient copy of The Print Shop will be able to handle a modern
>printer, simply because it was writtin in '87 or '88, so nothing made in
>'97 or '98 would be on it's list of choices. GS/OS apps I'm sure could be
>coaxed into working with Hermonie (or whatever that package of drivers was
>called), but I don't recall the details on that package. 

You are correct that Print Shop won't work with newer printers.  There
was even a "contest" to see if anyone could update it to work with
other printers but it was unsuccessful.  However, you should still be
able to use your Print Shop graphics in other programs to create the
same things.

Harmonie, which is available from Shareware Solutions II, supports
many of the newer Epson printers.  You just need to make sure the
printer supports the PCL printer language.  The Harmonie drivers won't
take full advantage of the newer printers but you can get up to 720 x
360 dpi I believe.

The only other thing to watch for is that the printer does have a
serial interface as many modern printers are parallel or USB only.

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