Re: Imagewriter II with a PC

[dg04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID GRUMBINE)]

In article <131643@netnews.upenn.edu>, george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu (George Jeffer
son -Bassani) writes:
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>"I think your problem may be that the ImageWriter is a parallel printer."
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>nope, its serial.  Mac's dont even have parallel ports.

This is in fact correct.  Actually, a lot of newer printers have several
options for interfacing:  serial (RS-232), Parallel (Centronics), Apple Talk,
etc.  Some are even smart enough that you can plug different computers into
each input at the same time!

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>I'll add further misinformation to the discussion and say that the
>problem is that he needs a driver, and If one exists I'd like to
>know about it too.

The Imagewriter II will print straight text (ACSII), so you don't need a
driver for it (unless you're running something stupid enough that it can't
even output ASCII, like Windows).  If this is the case, then I would think
that any dumb terminal device, ASCII device, etc. should work.  Now, to
print GRAPHICS or different fonts, character sizes, etc, then you would
need a driver.  WordPerfect 5.1 comes with an Imagewriter driver.  Don't
know about windows.
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