Re: Personal Laserwriter - Help!

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shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Anyhow, the LS is kinda like Stylewriters in that it needs the computer which
>runs it to create the output and pass it on, then the printer prints it. A
>postscript printer on the other hand just takes codes and does the thinking
>itself. Hence it works with Apple IIs since not much CPU intensive stuff on 
>the computer is necessary.

The StyleWriter works very well on the Apple IIGS, thank you, and
the IIGS has to "think" for it.  My Canon BubbleJet also has the
IIGS "think" yet it also runs without a hitch.  Both are 360 dpi units,
so they take more "effort" to print to than 300 dpi LaserWriters.

So much for that theory.  The real issue is the availability of drivers.
Have a driver, the printer will work with the IIGS.  No driver and it
won't work.