Re: Printer Drivers

[Peter Hinchliffe <hinchlif@numbat>]

On Tue, 16 May 1995, J. L. Walters wrote:

> I talked to a fellow from Wisconsin recently that had a parallel card,
> ImageWriter I and a DeskJet. He hooked the ImageWriter to the serial
> port, the DeskJet to the parallel and used the Control Panel to switch
> between the two (Your Card and printer port).

Well, I can go one better than that! 

Get this: I have an ImageWriter II in the Printer Port, and a parallel 
card in slot 2. I have Slot 2 set to "Your Card" in the Control Panel, 
and a DeskJet 540 connected to the parallel card (it's an Apple Parallel 
Card, BTW).

I have told ProTERM than I have an Apple Parallel Card in Slot 2, and 
everthing works! My modem initializes just fine, because ProTERM is 
talking directly to the Modem Port, not "Slot 2". I can even capture text 
to the DeskJet while reading a file. This trick also works with Spectrum, 
and, I suspect, with ANSITerm, although I haven't tried it with that. It 
DOESN'T work with AppleWorks GS' communications module, because that IS 
addressing Slot 2 rather than the Modem Port itself.

In AppleWorks 5.0, it's even better. I have four printers installed: 
ImageWriter (slot 1), DJ Portrait & DJ Landscape (slot 2), and disk 
printer. I can swap between them without going anywhere near the Control 
Panel.

If I hadn't tried it and seen all this for myself I wouldn't have 
believed it. This machine is nothing short of miraculous!


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