Re: Laser printer to use with a Apple IIc

[Tony Kavadias <tonzaggl@gmail.com>]

On Oct 2, 5:02 pm, Jerry <awande...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Kevin Dady <ke...@hackaday.com> writes:
> > On Oct 1, 4:26 am, johnd <panpanpan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Looking for a laser printer to work with a Apple IIc, would a Personal
> >> Laserwriter 300 or a 320 be possible?
>
> > I have used a HP laser printer with a serial port to just print text
> > (no gfx) the PL300 has a serial interface ... if you want to dump some
> > text files to paper and already have the printer you should try, have
> > no idea about graphics printing though
>
> For years, Don Lancaster used an Apple IIe to print stuff to various
> LaserWriters using Postscript.  What he used was Apple Writer IIe and
> a serial port.  He published magazine articles and books, both included
> schematic diagrams and other assorted diagrams.  So graphics were
> definitely possible.
>
> I believe he wrote his Postscript code more or less by hand, or by using
> the WPL (word processing language) builtin to Apple Writer to generate
> it.  Perhaps there are some articles by him available on his web-site,www.tinaja.com, that would help you out.
>
> --
> Jerry    awanderin at yahoo dot ca

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... when Apple decided to make their
products more "open" in the marketplace.

My bad... and no, never even seen these printers, let alone try
printing PostScript through to them!
Begging your pardon on this one.


--tonza