Re: ImageWriter on AppleTalk from GS Help??

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3mvdgs$7i7@crl12.crl.com>, btomlin@aol.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. 
> 
> 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. 

Sequential Systems (800 759 4595) sells two different Appletalk cards for
the IWII... I belive both go for under $100 new, but that's unfounded
guess.  Look into the MegaBUFF and the Q:talk lto.  (my choice would be
the MegaBUFF)