Re: ImageWriter I and PC

[mharris@hops.cs.jhu.edu (Matthew S. Harris)]

Brian J. Bernstein (bernstbj@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Agent11 wrote:
: > Is there an FAQ where this is contained?  I've got an Imagewriter II and
: > was wanting to hook it up to my PC but I didn't know where to start.
: > Now it's in my closet, but I would like to use it again.

:   You will at least be able to do simple text printing, but no color
: support and no graphics support. MS does NOT have drivers for the
: Imagewriters, as far as I've seen in my experience.

Check out Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/), the free
PostScript interpreter.  It has two drivers for the Imagewriter (one
low-res and one high-res).  That'll surely give you graphics support,
but it won't let you do color.  (The drivers were actually written for
the Apple Dot Matrix Printer, which I don't know anything about.  But
I never really used color support even when I could.)  I have
practically no experience using these drivers, though, so I can't
really help if they don't work for you.


Matthew Harris
mharris@cs.jhu.edu