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

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

In article <54b3f0$3al@cello.gina.calstate.edu>,
LA County Outdoor Science School <lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.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.
>> 
>> 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.  

Actually you can do it with nothing but the //e and laserwriter on the network.
You use Chooser II, an app from the workstation card software, to select the
laser and download the emulator and off you go.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com