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

[lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School)]

"Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com> writes:
> Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote in article
> <53uusl$7dc@europa.frii.com>...
> > 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.
> 
> I can't envision that.  Do you mean that you are printing thru your Mac, or
> that the printer is hooked to a parallel port on the IIe and you are
> downloading the driver from the Mac, or are you doing something else
> altogether?

What he means is that the IIe is hooked up to an AppleTalk network with a 
Mac as a server.  The ImageWriter emulator is downloaded to the 
LaserWriter, and then remains resident in the LaserWriter memory until 
you power-down or restart the Laserwriter.  With the emulator in the LW 
memory, you can print to the LW just as though it were an ImageWriter.  
You even get nice font output from AppleWorks if you use one of the two 
proportional settings (p1 or p2) in the printer options.  

Greg
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