Re: Cannon BJC 4000 color inkjet printer works great with apple 2s

[hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

In article <20FEB199607433538@vax2.concordia.ca>,
hirschj@vax2.concordia.ca (vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

> Cannon recently obsoleted the BJC 4000 in favour of the 4100.
> The only difference between the two is the 4100 has 720x360
> resolution in both color and b/w while the 4000 has 760x360
> in b/w and 360x360 in color. The other MAJOR difference is
> that the 4100 no longer has the dip switches that the 4000 has.
> These switches allowed you to configure the 4000 as an IBM
> Proprinter X24E or an Epson LQ 2550. Configured as an IBM,
> you could print from any apple 2 program that has a driver
> you could print from any apple 2 program that has a driver
> for the proprinter, any star printer, and okidata printer.
> As an epson, you could use any program that had an epson
> compatible printer driver. Of course you could use a program
> with a Cannon BJ driver. Thus any apple 2 software prints
> to the 4000. I got one and experimented extensively with
> no problems. Since they are "obsolete" the 4000s are going
> dirt cheap.

I have been informed by someone who should know that the Apple Color
StyleWriter 2400 is just a Canon BJC 4000 dressed in Apple's costume. I
have just bought a StyleWriter 2400 for my Mac, in the joint hope that it
would indeed work as a BJC 4000 from GS/OS. I haven't tried it yet, but
this post gives me great hope. Imagine! A printer drive for the latest
StyleWriter for GS/OS!!

The only thing I haven't found are the dip switches. Of course, the Apple
manual makes no mention of them, but I'll have a poke around and see if I
can find some. Any clues on where to look?

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