RE: [WinMac] ImageWriter + PC?
John Nurick(jnurick[at]lrconsulting.co.uk)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:46:33 -0000
Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Can an Apple ImageWriter be made to work, either via direct connection
> (serial or parallel) or via Ethernet (using a Farallon or Asanté
adapter)
> with a PC running Win95?
Back in the steam age I had no difficulty getting an Imagewriter to work
via serial connection from DOS machines; just had to wire up a cable to
link the Imagewriter's RS422 port and the PC's RS232C port (with a bit
of thought about handshaking) and then direct the PC print output to
that port. I also wrote a printer driver for MS Word for DOS, and we
used it for years.
All this was so long ago I can't remember any of the details and don't
have the records, but I wouldn't expect any problems doing the same
under Win95, using the Generic/Text Only printer driver. IIRC you can
feed this with control codes for bold and italic text.
If you want to do multiple fonts and graphics, you need a proper Windows
printer driver for the ImageWriter. I've never come across one, but who
knows what a web search might find!
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