Re: parallel cards?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

O Aaland (oaaland@aol.com) wrote:
: Got two boards that look like parallel interface cards.

: One is labeled:  
: Epson APL BOARD
: UNIT Y49020400100
: AIN-2

: This is a parallel printer card that works well with my wide carriage
: Epson Printer. There should be no reason that you could not use it in a GS,
: however this particular card does not support graphics, only the built in
: fonts of the printer.

That is not quite true.
Unlike, say, the Grappler+, the APL board does not have any built-in
graphics features.  But the Epson supports bit-image graphics, provided
that you are willing to generate them 'the hard way'.  Fortunately, there
are hundreds of programs out there that will do exactly that

Now, let me think...the person wanting to use this has a GS, right? 
Hmmm...I don't know if there is a Finder printer driver for the Epson or
not...  (now checking my GS/OS install disks...)  Hmmm...There *is* an
Epson printer driver.  Not sure *which* Epson, but there is a driver...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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