Re: Imagewriter II to IBM

[valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff)]

In article <a884569@pro-att>,
Saul Schwartz <clark!pro-freedom!pro-ren!pro-att!sauls> wrote:
>Regarding the previous messages about connecting an Imagewriter II to an
>IBM as a C ITOH...
>
>Will I still be able to use the 4-color capabilities of the imagewriter?
>

Yes, but...
The Imagewriter II uses special commands (sorry, I don't have an ImageWriter II
here, so I don't have the commands handy) for color.  If you can pass the 
appropriate command to the printer (naturally, the driver will not contain 
these commands...you'll have to force your software to send them), you can get 
it to print in color.  In fact, the Imagewriter can print in about eight colors
(maybe more!)--its firmware will automatically overstrike multiple colors so 
you can print in orange, purple, brown, black, blue, red, yellow, etc.

Since the printer uses standard ASCII to activate color, you can still send the
color commands to the printer and use color.  Since the Itoh is not a color 
printer, that driver does not (or should not, at any rate) contain the 
color-mode commands.  As long as you do it 'by hand', you can access all the 
software features of the printer.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(using Apple Writer ][e to take advantage of the neat features of my Panasonic 
KX-P1180)