Re: Imagewriter to PC problems

[gtolar@blkbox.com (Glynne Tolar)]

Roy Clymer (rclymer@ghawk.com) wrote:
: Don't hate me, but I finally gave in to megabyte fever and abandoned my
: faithful old Apple II and bought a 486DX-50.

As long as it is not a Mac, as I see it.

: But I can't get the
: Imagewriter to work with it.  I know I deserve to be punished, but if
: anybody can help, I would apprciate it greatly.  I'm pretty sure my comm
: port is properly configured.  I can only see two possibilites.  One is
: that the db9 to db25 converter I bought from Radio Shack is incorrectly
: wired or something.  The other is the DIP switches on the Imagewriter.
: I have tried various combinations of those (ignore 8th bit or not,
: XON/XOFF vs DTR, but nothing works.  Any ideas?   Thanks.

You should not need to change to default DIP switch settings on the IW II.
Likely your cable wiring is wrong.  Also make sure, for DOS apps, you 
have the mode command redirect LPT1 to COMx (whateven com port it is 
attached to).  If you need more data let me know.  I currently use a 
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.