Re: Printers & The IIGS (Was: Question For Scott G)

[Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com>]

Well, 24 hours after my last post about printers and the IIGS, I have 
a 2nd "preliminary" report...

Tony Diaz (of Alltech Electronics) brought home an Epson Stylus 600 and
connected it to the IIGS.

Of all things, the first thing he tried was Print Shop GS, and he said it
printed out beautifully, in full living color. The margins were all
correct, and everything else about it was right...using the PSGS Epson LQ
driver.

That was a bit of unexpected good news ;-)

He was also able to output text at 360 x 360 from EgoEd, using Harmonie's
Epson LQ4000 driver. So, that's two bits of good news. Oh, and he was 
also able to dump text to the printer with a PR#1 from the Applesoft 
prompt, so apparently these Epson Stylus printers do have internal fonts 
and can be used from ProDOS-8.

He also was able to print out a graphic from Platinum Paint at 360 dpi.
But, only in grayscale. That was just from one attempt, so he says he'll
continue fiddling with things to see if he can output graphics in color.
Apparently, Tony hadn't used Harmonie before, so maybe he just has to try
out a few of the different Harmonie options? We'll see.

3 out of 4 ain't bad, but still...that Number 4 test (printing in color) is
THE critical test. If he's successful... ;-)

In the meanwhile, if those of you who do have Epson Stylus printers could
try printing graphics in color, that would be great. Thanks...

Joe Kohn