Re: Most modern color printer for IIGS?

[Slick@noSPAMplease.net (Slick)]

Man, am I behind the times. I don't have a clue as to what half those
abbreviations mean. What I'm looking for is a color printer that I can
share with my IIGS and Mac (aka SERIAL ONLY) same as I do with the IW2,
but something that preferably does color a little better.  I have doubts
that the ancient copy of The Print Shop will be able to handle a modern
printer, simply because it was writtin in '87 or '88, so nothing made in
'97 or '98 would be on it's list of choices. GS/OS apps I'm sure could be
coaxed into working with Hermonie (or whatever that package of drivers was
called), but I don't recall the details on that package. 




In article <u49f4mn213d87d@corp.supernews.com>, salfter@salfter.dyndns.org
(Scott Alfter) wrote:

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> Slick <Slick@noSPAMplease.net> wrote:
> >Just went to buy a new color ribbon for my old ImageWriter II, and it
> >seems that the last known store in my area to cary them has dropped them.
> >I think it's about time to retire my IW2, but what's the most modern color
> >printer I can get that work with AppleWorks 3.0, a copy of The Print Shop
> >IIGS that I've had since December '88, AppleWorks GS, and ShadowWrite?
> 
> I haven't actually tried hooking it up yet (because it's parallel-only), but
> I'm guessing that the Lexmark Optra Color 40 I bought a while back ought to
> work.  It's a color inkjet printer with both PCL and PostScript support. 
> The LaserWriter driver ought to work for at least B&W printing from 16-bit
> apps.  Third-party drivers for HP DeskJets also ought to work if you want it
> to do color.  Printing from 8-bit apps will most likely use the LW driver's
> Imagewriter emulator, which wouldn't do color (maybe color support could be
> hacked into it...you'd need fairly decent knowledge of PostScript to do
> that).  A few 8-bit apps generate PostScript by themselves...the only one
> that comes to mind is Publish-It! (which I used quite a bit back the
> day...uploaded a PostScript file to the machines in the computer lab and
> used their printer).
> 
> This model has been discontinued for some time, but I think the Optra Color
> 45 is still current (and handles up to 11x17, too).  Alternatively, you
> could snag this one that's up on eBay (supposed to be NIB):
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1322253694
> 
> That one's currently at $10.  I bought mine for $100 when buy.com was
> clearing them out a while back, so you probably don't want to go much beyond
> that.  With a serial-to-parallel converter (or maybe a parallel card...don't
> have much experience with these on Apple IIs), it ought to work fairly well.
> 
> I suppose any of the HPs that still support PCL would work.  They won't grok
> PostScript, though.  Avoid PPA models (DeskJet 7xxC, etc.).  Canon inkjets
> used to be Epson-compatible, but I don't think that holds for current
> models.  Speaking of Epson, while their inkjets might stand the best chance
> of working with 8-bit apps (assuming that they've kept compatibility with
> their older models), you couldn't pay me to take one...in my experience,
> they've been extremely unreliable.  (They like to clog up, and due to the
> design of the printer, the clog usually requires a service call to fix.)
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