Re: Classic Appleworks with Laserwriter

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

kuss@cs.tu-berlin.de (Christian Kuss) writes:

>A friend uses an Apple IIgs with the old Appleworks 1.4 (I think).
>He wants to buy a Laserwriter for his Apple IIgs and his Powerbook.
>Which Laserwriter works with the old Appleworks and with a Powerbook.
>He doesnt use any GS software, only plain Appleworks.

Any laser printer will work as long as it has Postscript and localtalk.
You set up the IIgs to use one of the serial ports as Appletalk. You get some
localtalk connectors and connect all the machines you want to use the printer.
Then you use the imagewriter emulator, a postscript program you download to
the printer, and print to the laser just as if it were an imagewriter. I have
a laserwriter NTR myself and I can print from all my 8 bit software this way.
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