Re: Imagewriter II with a PC

[mspaeth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Gretzky)]

In article <1993Jun16.150506.7916@datcon.co.uk> rg@datcon.co.uk (Richard Gledhill) writes:
>Lord High Bit Counter of The Robotic Imperium (pads@ravel.udel.edu) wrote:

>I think your problem may be that the ImageWriter is a parallel printer.
>I don't know anything about it, but the majority of printers these days
>are parallel, so unless your Apple serial cable is actually an Apple
>Parallel to PC serial, then you don't stand any chance, I'm afraid.  In
>fact, if you connect a serial COM port to a parallel printer, you risk
>damaging one or the other!
>

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1.  Both the imagewriter and imagewriter II are both SERIAL printers, not 
    parallel... either the Scribe or the DMP may have been parallel, but
    the imagewriters are most definitely SERIAL

2.  Printers these days are split between serial, parallel, appletalk, scsi,
    ethernet, or some combination of the above...


I think a previous poster who mentioned that you can't use a com as a printer
port from dos per se may have been correct. I think you have do some thing
like "Mode LPT1 = COM1" and then print to the LPT port.

.. but don't quote me on the IBM port, I don't claim to be an expert...

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