Re: ImageWriter on AppleTalk from GS Help??

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Bruce Tomlin (btomlin@crl.com) wrote:
: Scott Pelok (spelok@s.imap.itd.umich.edu) wrote in comp.sys.apple2:
: >I have my ImageaWriter II in the network with my MAC and a couple of old
: >GS's attached.  I can get the Imagewriter to print from all GS/OS
: >programs, but I cannot from ProDOS 8.  Can these programs  (ie AppleWorks,
: >PrintShop GS) be used over the localtalk net to print.  Or is there some
: >way around this. 

: Is it an Imagewriter II with the AppleTalk option card in it?  If not,
: forget it, since even another Mac won't be able to print over the net to
: it.  (The StyleWriter has software to do this, however.) I have no idea,
: but would expect that there is an Appletalk Imagewriter driver for the
: IIgs, to let you talk to an optioned IWII. 

Since the original poster says it prints from native programs, I'm guessing
that there is a network card in the printer. One thing to point out is that
you have to boot GS/OS to have all the Appletalk software installed. If you're
booting ProDOS 8 directly, no dice. 
You're out of luck with Print Shop GS too, it tries to be so freaking clever
and gets unhappy if you don't have slot 1 set to printer port. It won't print
to a network printer.
It will work with any software that doesn't try to be clever like PS GS. I 
have an IW II and a laserwriter and a IIgs and //e with workstation card on 
a network. I can print to the laser or the IW with Appleworks on the //e and
IIgs and with native apps too. I only have one printer installed in Appleworks
even, since I only have to select the printer with the net printer control 
panel on the IIgs or chooser II on the //e.
So all you need to do is boot GS/OS and choose the IW with the net printer
control panel then run Appleworks or other 8 bit apps and they will print.

: The IWII AppleTalk option card is still available as far as I know, from
: at least one of the usual Mac mail-order places.  A friend of mine got one
: last year, and it cost a little more than a hundred bucks. 

If only I had bought all I could get when my dealer was selling them for $10
a pop...
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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