[WinMac] RE: ImageWriter + PC?
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:32:13 -0500
The ImageWriter was made by C. Itoh, with a slight change in the serial
port to accommodate the RS-422 (Mac 8 pin) port.
BTW, the DOS driver wouldn't be needed because windoze uses a raster print
system (a knock-off of QuickDraw), as opposed to a character-based printing
system. Use a generic dot matrix driver such as a Panasonic KX-P 1123 and
you'll be fine. The last paragraph doesn't apply because the font
attributes are applied to the bitmap, as opposed to sending control
characters. This is why the ImageWriter doesn't have (or need) all those
controls on the front like a DOS printer would.
Hope this helps!
Dan
At 01:46 PM 3/22/99 -0000, L&R Consulting wrote:
>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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