Re: Imagewriter to PC problems

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

bjbernstein@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Brian J. Bernstein) writes:

| In article <3o5gl4$m4@csc.canberra.edu.au>, u933234@student.canberra.edu.au (
| > In article <3nb2q6$5mn@ns1.interactive.net>,
| > Bill Friedrich <friedrb@interactive.net> wrote:
| >>>ImageWriter II (paper eater II) on two different PC laptops.  Both in DOS 
| >>>and Windows (is there a better Windows driver?  The text is BAD!).  I 
| >>>just may be too use to my DeskJet 500.
| 
| >>your using the C Itoh 8510 right?
| 
| >>also, if ya see a C Itoh 9515XP driver,
| >>(lemmie know) that might be color! 
| 
| > I'd like to try using my IwII on my pc, and would like to know the 
| > pinouts or hardware configs necessary for me to do so. Any replies 
| > through email would be appreciated. Thanks.
| 
|   I have connected my ImageWriter I to my amiga before through the serial por
| with the help of a null modem adapter. I imagine some kind of similar setup
| would work for an IBM if they have some way of routing the printer to the
| serial port (I print from an IBM bridgeboard through a special program on the
| Amiga side that routes the printer to the serial port).
| 
|   However, if the IBM can't do that (which I don't believe is the case), then
| there are parallel -> serial converters out there around $40 - $70 I have
| heard. 
| 
|   Give it a shot..
| 
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MODE should be able to reroute PRN: to point to COMx: instead of LPTx: 
without much difficulty.

unfortunately, the DOS reference i have before me is awful (proprietary 
MS 3.2), but it should be in the HELP MODE or in whatever book you've 
got handy on DOS.

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