Re: ImageWriter I and PC

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article "Brian J. Bernstein" <bernstbj@ix.netcom.com> writes...

>> Is there an FAQ where this is contained?  I've got an Imagewriter II and
>> was wanting to hook it up to my PC but I didn't know where to start.
>> Now it's in my closet, but I would like to use it again.
> 
>  You will at least be able to do simple text printing, but no color
>support and no graphics support. MS does NOT have drivers for the
>Imagewriters, as far as I've seen in my experience.

    Not true, if you connect an ImageWriter II to a PC it will support
both color and graphics. I believe you just use the C-Itoh driver from
Windows 95 and add a few lines to your config.sys file in DOS (setting
the serial port speed to 9600 mostly). The other thing required is the
proper cable, I vagely recall a hardware handshaking modem cable, a PC
serial cable and null-modem adapter did the trick for me.

    Someone once told me they were even able to print colored text from
the latest version WordPerfect. I've been meaning to get my ImageWriter
connected to my PC, I have no other printer at the moment. :/ 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca