Re: Printer Help Needed

["Henry Broekhuyse" <broekh@unixg.ubc.ca>]

Gil Parrish <gil.parrish@abanet.org> wrote in message
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> Back from the days of the Super Serial Card-- what were the standard DIP
> switch settings for serial printers?  Something like 9600, 8N1, two stop
> bits?
>
> Also, any clue if Apple serial printers were different in any material
> respect from standard RS-232 serial printers?  In other words, if the
> correct settings are fed in (like 9600 baud above), will Apple serial
> printers work with PCs and standard serial printers with Apples?

For a detailed description of how the classic Imagewriter I was set up with
the Super Serial Card, look at this Apple TIL article:
http://til.info.apple.com/tilarchive.nsf/artnum/n1121

For information on configuring Imagewriter family printers to a PC, look at
this article:
http://til.info.apple.com/tilarchive.nsf/artnum/n752

If the correct serial communication parameters are used, ASCII text-only
printing
with these old printers will almost always work no matter whether the
printer was originally intended to be used with a PC or a Mac. The problems
begin when you attempt to use their "extended character sets" or when you
attempt to use their graphics modes, for which there was no standard other
than
that set by the most "popular" printer models of the era.