Re: ImageWriter II specs

[twdorris@mip.net (Thomas Dorris)]

> ARG!  This is very frustrating.  I just spent two hours soldering a cable 
> together to connect my IW II to my PC's parallel port, but the darn thing 
> doesn't seem to work.  

Uhhh... Here's an idea...  Why don't I plug the SERIAL printer into a 
SERIAL port instead of the parallel port?  God, I feel stupid.  For some 
reason or other, I always think of printers as parallel devices...  I 
don't know why I didn't consider the fact that the IW II is serial.  

Unfortunately, the cable I made is intended to plug into the female RS-
232 parallel port and not the male RS-232 serial port, so I can't re-test 
tonight.  Will have to get a gender changer tomorrow (oh, I forgot the 
holidays...will have to wait 'til Thursday) and try again.  Sorry for 
wasting bandwidth on what may well be just a bonehead move on my part.

Having said all that, though, I would still be interested in getting 
the IW II control codes.  Anybody tired of hearing me mention those yet? 
:-)  David Empson was kind enough to point me to the owner's manual and 
the technical reference manual (ISBN 0-201-17766-8), but of course I do 
not have either of those on me.  He was also the first to suggest I was 
doing something BLATANTLY wrong in my setup.  Thanks David!

Thomas Dorris
IMAKE Software and Services