Re: Re Apple II e.....Can I use Inkjet or Lasers ??????

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shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>It mentions Laserwriter up there, but then doesn't say a thing about using
>one with a //e. If you have a workstation card in your //e, you can download
>the imagewriter emulator to any laserwriter with postscript and print to it
>just like it were an imagewriter. I've done this with my //e and PLW NTR and
>it works great. I've tried it with Appleworks, Proterm, and BASIC even.
>-- 
>Randy Shackelford                                 
>shack@frii.com                                    

You don't even need a workstation card.  The //e can communicate with the
LaserWriter by plain old serial (the original LaserWriter, after all,
connected to the Mac 128K with a serial cable).

Several //e programs also directly support postscript (Publish-It,
Springboard Publisher and GEOS come to mind) as well as any GS/OS program.
We're talking about native postscript (full resolution), not IWEM.

Now if your printer has only AppleTalk or SCSI ports, then you have a
problem.  The original LaserWriter did NOT have this problem.