Re: Printer drivers for Apple IIC's

[scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft)]

>I'm interested in hooking up a printer other than my Imagewriter
>I/II to an Apple IIc.  Can someone point me towards information about
>cabling and pinouts for hooking up, perhaps, an HP DeskJet?
>
>What printers are commonly supported on the Apple II - that is,
>what non-dot-matrix ones?  Would I be able to print to an ink jet or
>laser printer using Appleworks on the IIc?

You can do what I did for my GS.  After "moving up" from a Laser,
which was smart enough to have a parallel port, I had this Panasonic
24pin printer.  So I got the Xetec SuperWriter box from Quality
Computers for about $60 (cheaper than new parallel cards btw).  You
hook the box up to your //c, GS, SuperSerial, or MacSE printer/modem
port, and the other end to your printer.  COnfigure the dip switches,
and voila, any Epson or clone is now an ImageWriter.  I have an
ImageWriter LQ for $260!

Since the HP DeskJet works with simple pr#1, you can dump AppleWorks
and other text to it.  Graphics may not fly so easy; you're on your
own there.

There is a program called A2PS that turns text into PostScript, so you
could get output to a LaserWriter or clone.  But I'm not sure how you
could get an AppleTalk connection to the IIc.

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