Re: Printer Setup on GS?

[cknoblo@gonix (Carl Knoblock)]

jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Joseph Turner) writes:
:   Hi , I have been trying to attach a printer to my rom1 2gs and I have 
: had mixed results. I don't have a serial cable, so I have opted for the 
: parallel card interface. I put the card into slot 1 and told the Control 
: Panal that I had my own card on slot1. Now in Prodos 8 this seems to work 
: fine and of course I have no problems in Appleworks. However, when I goto 
: to GSOS....(which I originally thought was version4...becuase it says on 
: the disk version4, but seems to be version2) the gs grappler in the 
: accessories gives up and puts some machine language on the screen. When I 
: attempt to get GS Paint, the whole system just freezes; as if it is 
: TRYING to find the printer but cannot or is putting the data to some 
: other slot. This has been puzzling me a bit.  Has anybody got any idea 
: how to get my GS to recognize the printer in 16-bit mode?
: 
In GSOS, you do need a driver for that card. You should also update to 
newer System software, buy more memory (4 megs recommended), and a hard 
drive, but they do cost money. Memory and hard drives are about as cheap 
as they have ever been, so if you can, do it now.

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