Re: PC to Imagewriter II

[eric@cimosa.grenoble.hp.com (Eric LUTHERER)]

Galen Tatsuo Komatsu (gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
:>[I hope I'm posting to the right ibm group...]

:>	I recently picked up an MSDOS machine (yes csa2 folk, it's a
:>dark day in my personal computing history =^) but it was somewhat
:>cheap and honestly, will expand my computing horizons.)

:>	So I was wondering if I could use my Apple Imagewriter II with
:>it. (and of course, how?)  I think I saw this topic come up looong ago
:>but never did follow it (obviously since I didn't have a PC at the
:>time. =^)

Yes. It is possible to hook an Imagewriter II printer to an MS-DOS Computer.
For cable problems, you have to build or buy a mini-din 8 to DB9 or DB25
cable. The schema of such a cable should be in the IW II user manual.
For software, I tried to make it work under Windows. I used to solutions:
  - to use the TTY printer driver: You just have to configure it for special
    characters, bold and italic and it will work well for text.
  - for graphics, the solution if found is to use the C_Itoh driver provided 
    with Windows. It is very similar with the IW II and it works. However, I
    have a small problem with the formfeed that didn't work well.

I hope this helps.

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