Re: IIgs printers...

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

golfrock wrote:
> I tried to use a Stylewriter II on my IIGS, it did not function well.
> I finally got a Stylewriter and it works like a charm.
>
> The Laserwriter is an option in GSOS 6 but I would expect that it would
> have to be one of the first models.

Any Appletalk compliant Postscript printer (ie all of Apple's ones)
should work quite well via GSOS, but I've not tried this myself.

I'm a IIe guy, and use the Workstation card to connect to stuff via
Appletalk. The nice thing with this solution which is arguably better
than the IIgs approach, is that the workstation card, after being bound
to a selected network printer switches to behaving like a super serial
card. When you want to print you select Imagewriter (supported by
practically everything), and the Workstation card sends a Postscript
job that has an Imagewriter emulator written in Postscript to the
printer.

I'm unsure of whether a Workstation card would work OK under GSOS, but
it'd certainly work fine under ProDOS 8 on a IIgs. If there's a driver
option for a super serial card under GSOS, it would be possible to use
the Workstation card and get 'best of both worlds'

A few years back I had Netatalk and ghostscript set up to emulate a
LaserWriter on the network. The Apple II print job would end up as a
PDF file on my linux box. Quite nifty

Matt