Re: IIGS and Laserwriter IISC

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nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>Ing. Jansen Robert <rjansen@vub.ac.be> wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect a LaserWriter IISC
>>(the one with the SCSI interfaces and NO PostScript) to a IIGS ?
>
>   That should have Postscript on the printer, but the GS Laserwriter
>software is only really set up to write to a (more-or-less) postscript
>file on disk or communicate out over Appletalk.

Incorrect, my cheerleading pom-pom toting friend...you can set up
the Laserwriter driver to print to a Laserwriter set up on the serial
port as the direct connect printer.  No Appletalk necessary.

>   You'd really have to do a lot of work to get the Postscript driver
>to talk to a scsi device, as well as provide a SCSI driver to make
>things work. Good luck trying to get documentation on how to talk to
>that printer-- like the Apple II, I'd expect Apple to have forgotten
>that they ever made such a thing.

The System 6 Golden Master CD-ROM has the necessary driver
software for SCSI based Laserwriters.  This was talked about in
the issue of GS+ magazine that reviewed laser printers.