RE: [WinMac] RE: ImageWriter + PC?
John Nurick(jnurick[at]lrconsulting.co.uk)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:35:09 -0000
There's not really such a thing as a generic dot matrix driver in the
sense of one driver that will work with most printers, because printers
can differ fundamentally in the way they want the bitmap data sent. But
if the Imagewriter is basically a C. Itoh machine I'd start with a
driver for a C. Itoh (there only seems to be one in late Win95
distributions, the 8510).
The basic way of working for Imagewriters is to print whatever bitmap
data the Mac sends - but they also have a good set of built-in fonts (by
mid-80s 9 pin standards), which in DOS days one could easily manipulate
in software though not, as Dan says, with hardware controls.
John
Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
> 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
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