Re: PC to print to Imagewriter II

[glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <1993Apr20.035228.17205@henson.cc.wwu.edu> jimm@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Jim Moore) writes:

>My question concerns the imagewriter II than I have hooked to it.  I would 
>like to know if there is any way that I can hook it up to my PC.  I have a
>486 66mhz but no printer, so I was hoping that there was some way to get the
>printer and PC to communicate.  My guess is that there will have to be a 
>special cable and obviously some software.  Does anyone know of if these
>animals exist and if so, where I can get them.

You should use a hardware-handshake RS232 cable available at many computer
outlets.  If you only have a regular serial cable, make sure you use
XON/XOFF handshaking.  You need to change a IW2 DIP switch for this; check
your manual.

Don't forget to set your serial cards to XON/XOFF.

Normal text is no problem.  If you want to make use of "special
features" on the DOS end, you need a suitable driver.  Wordperfect 5.1
has a driver for the IW2, I'm not sure about other programs.

--Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca