Re: Re Apple II e.....Can I use Inkjet or Lasers ??????

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <54o3co$25eg@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

>>It mentions Laserwriter up there, but then doesn't say a thing about using
>>one with a //e. If you have a workstation card in your //e, you can download
>>the imagewriter emulator to any laserwriter with postscript and print to it
>>just like it were an imagewriter. I've done this with my //e and PLW NTR and
>>it works great. I've tried it with Appleworks, Proterm, and BASIC even.
>
>You don't even need a workstation card.  The //e can communicate with the
>LaserWriter by plain old serial (the original LaserWriter, after all,
>connected to the Mac 128K with a serial cable).

You'd have a far easier time using localtalk. I thought Don Lancaster was the
only one to ever try a serial connection, writing his own WPL code in Apple-
writer to run it.

>Several //e programs also directly support postscript (Publish-It,
>Springboard Publisher and GEOS come to mind) as well as any GS/OS program.
>We're talking about native postscript (full resolution), not IWEM.

OK that gives you three whole apps. But IWEM lets any app that knows about
an IW (practically all) and doesn't try to be so friggin' clever (e.g. Print
Shop GS - it doesn't allow printing to the appletalk slot) can print with
IWEM downloaded.

>Now if your printer has only AppleTalk or SCSI ports, then you have a
>problem.  The original LaserWriter did NOT have this problem.

But we're talking Laserwriters in general right?
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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