Re: Laser printer to use with a Apple IIc

[sarkeizen <gwailocool@gmail.com>]

On Oct 4, 3:26 am, Alex Freed <alex_n...@alexfreed.com> wrote:
> > And before I shoot my own foot off... I just read up that the Personal
> > 300/LS, Select 300|310|360, Pro 600|630|640|810 and Color LaserWriter
> > all supported serial ports...
>
> I guess I can be considered a resident expert as I used to work for
> Adobe Systems - a company that actually designed all the PostScript
> printers of the era.
>
> They all had a serial port. LocalTalk was based on a Zilog "SCC" chip
> that is a dual USART. One channel was plain old serial.
>
> Software is a different matter. Either you write some Apple 2 code to
> spit out PostScript of write some interpreter in PostScript on the
> printer itself, crazy as it sounds. Yes, PostScript is a full blown
> programming language :)
>
> So the short answer is it can be done but not without writing code.
>
> -Alex.

One option would be to use PublishIt.  IIRC it supported Postscript
output.