Re: [WinMac] Impact printer on Ethernet with USB Macs

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:32:28 -0400

        No need to make a mountain out of a molehill: The old ImageWriter II wide
carriage printers will also do this easily, including the tractor feed, by
using the PrinterShare Extension or the AppleShare Server 3 or 4 print
spooler with the IWem (ImageWriter emulator) Extension.

        If all of your G3 servers are B&W, i.e. Steveified serial ports, you can
always drop in a $39 serial port into the modem slot or into a (valuable)
PCI slot. [I can't find my MacWorld notes from 3 months ago, but I *know*
there is a vendor that makes a serial port that fits in the modem slot on
the B&W G3. Anybody?]

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 09:23 AM 10/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Been reading a while and have come upon a situation that I think maybe you
all could help with.
>
>To wit:
>
>I am setting up an e-commerce site using Mac G3 Servers and iMac
workstations. We will be
>shiiping product from our "brick and mortar" location and have tenatively
chosen AirBorne
>Express as our carrier. The problem is this: AirBorne Express will
provide shipping labels
>pre-printed with our business information, but they are on tractor feed
carbonless forms. I
>would like to find an old ImageWriter II (durable as hell and pretty damn
fast even by today's
>standards) to use for these labels.
>
>Is there a way to set-up the ImageWriter II to run through Ethernet/USB?
>
>If not, is there an impact printer that can be used in conjunction with
our current hardware?
>
>Please respond off list as I never know when I get a chance to read all my
newsletters (it may
>be a week or more at times)
>
>TIA
>
>Curtis J Siters
>csiters@earthlink.net
>
>
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