Re: Grappler+

[valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff)]

In article <1993Dec26.203451.281363@mcontent.apana.org.au> Peter_J._Maloney@mco
ntent.apana.org.au writes:
>Scott Maxwell asks...
>"I have an Orange Micro Grappler+ with no documentation. Could anyone help
>me out and tell me what the DIP switches are for so I can set it up?
>Thanks in advance"
>
>According to the manual those switches are there to customize the card for
>various printers.
>Printer              Sw1  Sw2  Sw3  Sw4
>Epson                 *    on   on   on
-->Try using this setting for most of the newer 'designed for PC's' printers, 
such as the Panasonic KX-P1180.  I don't have a Grappler, but I have a 
bare-bones parallel card with my KX-P1180.  I just tell Fontrix that I have an 
Epson MX-80 with Graftrax Plus and an APL board, and it works fine.  Since the 
Grappler has to send commands to the printer, and since Epson has become a 
de-facto printer standard in the 'other' computer world, this is the most 
likely setting to work.  --DCAjr

>NEC 8023/C.Itoh 8510  *    on   on   off
-->Note that this printer is often called a ProWriter, or occasionally referred
to as "Apple Dot Matrix"  8-)   (I have one of these on my Lisa.  Lisa thinks 
it is an ImageWriter I connected somehow through the parallel port!) --DCAjr

Centronics 739-1      *    on   off  on
>Anadex/Data South 180 *    on   off  off
>Okidata 82 or 83      *    off  on   on
>
>* Sw1 controls the MSB. Sw1 on blocks the MSB (hi-bit).
>
>Now, which one of these antiques are you using?   :)
>
>Regds, Peter M.

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