Re: ImageWriter on AppleTalk from GS Help??

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

btomlin@crl.com (Bruce Tomlin) writes:

>Scott Pelok (spelok@s.imap.itd.umich.edu) wrote in comp.sys.apple2:
>>I have my ImageaWriter II in the network with my MAC and a couple of old
>>GS's attached.  I can get the Imagewriter to print from all GS/OS
>>programs, but I cannot from ProDOS 8.  Can these programs  (ie AppleWorks,
>>PrintShop GS) be used over the localtalk net to print.  Or is there some
>>way around this. 

>Is it an Imagewriter II with the AppleTalk option card in it?  If not,
>forget it, since even another Mac won't be able to print over the net to
>it.  (The StyleWriter has software to do this, however.) I have no idea,
>but would expect that there is an Appletalk Imagewriter driver for the
>IIgs, to let you talk to an optioned IWII. 

  He _can_ print to the printer from ProDOS 8. But he has to boot GS/OS
first, and run his P8 application from the Finder or other IIGs program
launcher. Furthermore, he has to make sure that in a ROM 01 slot 7
is set to "built-in appletalk" and he must print to slot 7.
  On a ROM 03, he can print to slot 1 or 2.

>The IWII AppleTalk option card is still available as far as I know, from
>at least one of the usual Mac mail-order places.  A friend of mine got one
>last year, and it cost a little more than a hundred bucks. 

  Sequential Systems has two such cards. The LTO, which is your basic
AppleTalk interface card, sells for $79. The MegaBuff, which is
similar to the LTO bus has 1MB of buffer memory on it (and works
in serial mode, too) costs somewhat more than that, $99 at
Quality Computer.

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