Re: //c to Panasonic printer cable (?)

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32EED5B8.5736@primenet.com>,
Jeanne Chappell  <momkat@primenet.com> wrote:
>A caller to our Users Group asked if her color Panasonic KXP 2123
>will work with her Apple //c and what cable would she need.
>I said "I dunno" but I'll ask the experts on csa2.

   Most panasonic printers tended to be parallel printers, while //cs
were serial. You can buy converters between the two (a simple cable
won't go), but then there's the issue of getting the two to talk to
each other. If the Panasonic can take in raw ascii and print it, it'll
probably do a real good job at text output.

   Graphics will probably much lower quality (if the 2123 is backwards
compat with Apple II supported Panasonic printers to begin with)
because the graphics programs for the //e were severely dependent on
the original resolution, and will look rather pixellated (and probably
not color either).

Nathan Mates

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