Re: Printing to an AppleLaserWriter LS

[danb@pro-sol.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <199212151758.AA15763@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu>
geh2@cornell.edu (Gail Honness) writes:

>This person has an Apple IIgs and an ImageWriter II.  She has recently
>purchased a  Macintosh and a LaserWriter LS.  She would like to print to
>the LaserWriter from the Apple IIgs.  The LW LS is not a networkable
>printer(no AppleTalk port), therefore it requires a serial connnection to
>the computer.  I am assuming that she can use a standard Apple serial cable
>to connect the Apple IIgs and the LaserWriter LS.  The only problem I see
>is getting the required software the Apple IIgs so that it can print to a
>LaserWriter.  In the Mac environment you must have the print drivers
>installed in the "System Folder" ,  does the Apple IIgs require special
>printer drivers?  If so, where could we obtain a copy?  If not, what does
>one have to do to print on the LaserWriter?
>
>Thanks in advance for any information or assistance you might be able to
>provide!
>
>Gail Honness
><-------------------------------------->
>email: Gail_Honness@cornell.edu	
>Cornell Information Technologies
>

The GS would require a special driver to use the Personal LaserWriter LS. 
Unfortunately, Apple has not made such a driver available, nor have any third
parties, so a LS is unusable with a GS at this point.  What one has to do to
print to the LaserWriter is (1) Get documentation as to how it receives
bitmaps, and (2) write a driver.  :-(

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