Re: Personal Laserwriter - Help!

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19990730012100.01136.00000420@ng-fc1.aol.com>,
Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
>	Ok, what is a "quickdraw printer driver?"  I have a Personal Laser Writer LS,
>less the toner cartridge that I picked up at  the GoodWill about a year ago
>(before they started their policy of throwing in the dumpster anything that
>wasn't able to run Windows 95 or better).  

What, they throw away Apple stuff? Man I wouldn't exactly expect the latest
and greatest (or anywhere near it) to be donated. I'd expect to see Mac Pluses
and 386 type boxes mainly.

Anyhow, the LS is kinda like Stylewriters in that it needs the computer which
runs it to create the output and pass it on, then the printer prints it. A
postscript printer on the other hand just takes codes and does the thinking
itself. Hence it works with Apple IIs since not much CPU intensive stuff on 
the computer is necessary.

>	I actually picked it over a couple of other models because it was so much
>smaller (and lighter).  As I started tracking down the toner cartridge, I came
>across mentions about it in articles.  It was described as a cheap, bottom-end
>of the market laser printer that didn't have any built in fonts.
>
>	It's (or it was) my understanding that the Apple II computers need to have 
>printers with built in fonts to use them.  I couldn't, say, hook it up to my
>Apple IIe or gs and get it to print out AppleWorks or PublishIt!4 documents.
>
>	Am I (fingers crossed hopingly) wrong?

'Fraid so. No software exists to use non postscript LWs.
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