Re: Laser printer to use with a Apple IIc

[Tony Kavadias <tonzaggl@gmail.com>]

On Oct 2, 2:02 am, Jerry <awande...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Kevin Dady <ke...@hackaday.com> writes:
> > On Oct 1, 4:26 am, johnd <panpanpan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Looking for a laser printer to work with a Apple IIc, would a Personal
> >> Laserwriter 300 or a 320 be possible?
>
> > I have used a HP laser printer with a serial port to just print text
> > (no gfx) the PL300 has a serial interface ... if you want to dump some
> > text files to paper and already have the printer you should try, have
> > no idea about graphics printing though
>
> For years, Don Lancaster used an Apple IIe to print stuff to various
> LaserWriters using Postscript.  What he used was Apple Writer IIe and
> a serial port.  He published magazine articles and books, both included
> schematic diagrams and other assorted diagrams.  So graphics were
> definitely possible.
>
> I believe he wrote his Postscript code more or less by hand, or by using
> the WPL (word processing language) builtin to Apple Writer to generate
> it.  Perhaps there are some articles by him available on his web-site,www.tinaja.com, that would help you out.
>
> --
> Jerry    awanderin at yahoo dot ca

Umm... sorry to follow up, but I think the Apple LaserWriter and
LaserWriter Plus were the only printers that featured a serial port...
where you could send PostScript data to it.

However, the IWEM is not supported through this port on the two
printers.


--tonza