Re: Q:HP DeskWriter whith a IIe

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Michael Hickey (sirius@spirit.com.au) wrote:
: In article <4r7mft$3ps@news.vanderbilt.edu>, lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
: (John Lesher) wrote:

: > Well, my DeskWriter 540 can print text just fine, when it's in External
: > Rendering mode.  I don't often use it, considering the worthless way that
: > it prints out (std. font, std. size, screwy placement of letters, words
: > cut off at the end of lines), but it does indeed have internal fonts.
: > 
: > Tilghman

: Tilgman, 

: Have you _actually tried this_ from a non GSOS application?  If so, how do
: you put the Deskwriter into External Rendering on a //e, from (say)
: AppleWorks 4?   

: I have been under the long-held impression that the external rendering
: option was available only from a GSOS driver.  The biggest obsacle I can
: see is that the original poster doesn't have a IIgs.

I was responding not to the idea that it could print from a //e, but
that the DW couldn't handle text in ASCII mode, that it's a graphics
only printer.  It does text just fine.

However, in response to the original poster, there is no way to use a
DW from a //e.  (no *known* way) :-)

Tilghman