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

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

LA County Outdoor Science School (lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:
: "Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com> writes:
: > Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote in article
: > <53uusl$7dc@europa.frii.com>...
: > > 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.
: > 
: > I can't envision that.  Do you mean that you are printing thru your Mac, or
: > that the printer is hooked to a parallel port on the IIe and you are
: > downloading the driver from the Mac, or are you doing something else
: > altogether?

: What he means is that the IIe is hooked up to an AppleTalk network with a 
: Mac as a server.  The ImageWriter emulator is downloaded to the 
: LaserWriter, and then remains resident in the LaserWriter memory until 
: you power-down or restart the Laserwriter.  With the emulator in the LW 
: memory, you can print to the LW just as though it were an ImageWriter.  
: You even get nice font output from AppleWorks if you use one of the two 
: proportional settings (p1 or p2) in the printer options.  

All fine and good, except that there is no need to use the Mac as a
server.  Just send IWEM to the LaserWriter and you're set; IWEM can come
from the ][...in fact, I think GS/OS includes a copy with the LaserWriter
driver.

I have also heard that if you have only a computer and a LaserWriter, you
can talk to the LaserWriter using a serial port instead of
AppleTalk...even using a ][e with a SSC.  But every time I have
actually tried to connect a LaserWriter II to any computer via serial
(non-AppleTalk) cable, it has failed miserably.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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