Re: What is this printer?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

The Scribe is a thermal transfer printer that works with plain paper
or transparencies. It was a serial printer that used special black or
color ribbons.



David Empson wrote:

>
> Other early Apple printers:
>
> Apple DMP (parallel printer, earlier version of the ImageWriter I).
> Apple Scribe
> Apple Silentype
>
> I think the Silentype is a thermal transfer printer.  Not sure what the
> Scribe is, exactly.
>
> The DMP is a rebadged C-Itoh printer.  The ImageWriter I is basically a
> DMP with the interface hardware changed from parallel to serial.  They
> have the same command set.
>
> The ImageWriter II has a somewhat altered command set, which is
> compatible for the most part, except for a few obscure commands.
>
> (I think I wrote an article about the differences between them for my
> user group magazine some time around 1988.)
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand