Re: IIgs printer drivers

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32979CFA.7F9A@superior.carleton.ca>,
George Frajkor  <gfrajkor@superior.carleton.ca> wrote:
>This may be an odd question -- I have a IIgs (proto-Mac) with the 
>usual apple serial printer port.

   "proto-Mac"??? Ahem. The GS was designed *after* the original set
of Macs, and has a whole bunch of features that were later put back in
the Mac line (ADB, etc). But, we'll ignore that for now.

>  I also have a Roland 1011 serial printer, which is really a panasonic 
>1091 in drag.  Where can i get a printer driver for the IIgs that will 
>print to this printer?
> The standard apple imagewriter driver does not work, and neither does an 
>epson emulator.
>   Anyone know where IIgs software and drivers are stored?

   System 6.0.1 is at ftp.apple.com/dts/aii/sys.soft. There are very
few printer drivers that exist for more nonstandard printers; most of
those were commercial. Harmonie by Vitesse is reported to have support
for the Panasonic 1124; if your Roland is compatible with that, you
may be able to get it to work.

   I just quoted a list of Harmonie supported printers to the
newsgroup about 5 minutes ago; if you missed that, you can read it in
the comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions at
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html

Nathan Mates

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