shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/10/91)
Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST? Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated. (Why do it? I am being given a MAC and the printer, and would like to try to use it with my ST too. It is much better than my old, expensive NEC 8023.) Thanks. Steve Shawl Shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) (04/10/91)
In article <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST? >Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated. > You know, Mac is very "dot-oriented", so you would need to make/get aspecial driver for it. And it would also reserve the serial port, so no modem... This is because ImageWriter prints everything as a bit-image and mac does not have an actual centronics-port, both printer and modem ports are serials. So you can print pictures quite easily, but text does need a very special driver. Jartsu *** Jari Lehto, jartsu@otax.hut.fi, s37837k@saha.hut.fi ***
jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp> s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes: >In article <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST? >>Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated. >> > >You know, Mac is very "dot-oriented", so you would need to make/get aspecial >driver for it. And it would also reserve the serial port, so no modem... >This is because ImageWriter prints everything as a bit-image and mac does not >have an actual centronics-port, both printer and modem ports are serials. >So you can print pictures quite easily, but text does need a very special >driver. The Imagewriter does NOT need to print everything as a bit-image, though it obviously can, nor does that have anything to do with whether the interface is serial or Centronics parallel. The Imagewriter II will print ASCII text quite easily, in either draft or NLQ mode, and optionally in color. No need for "dots" or "very special" drivers, just a regular driver. -- John Cavallino | EMail: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Hospitals | USMail: 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Box 145 Office of Facilities Management | Chicago, IL 60637 "Opinions, my boy. Just opinions" | Telephone: 312-702-6900
rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp>, s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes: > In article <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST? >>Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated. > > You know, Mac is very "dot-oriented", so you would need to make/get aspecial > driver for it. And it would also reserve the serial port, so no modem... > This is because ImageWriter prints everything as a bit-image and mac does not > have an actual centronics-port, both printer and modem ports are serials. > So you can print pictures quite easily, but text does need a very special > driver. But it does have an ASCII mode, so any text based word processor would be able to use it. (But unless it has a printer driver for an Imagewriter, it won't be able to bold, underline, etc.) But you still would need some printer driver to do any screen-dumps, and any graphic oriented prg will need a printer driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins Question for MAC Users: rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET |||| Power Without What IS the format of a rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET / || \ The Price!! MAC HFS floppy disk? R.COLLINS1 on GEnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) (04/11/91)
In article <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp> s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes: >In article <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST? >>Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated. >> > >You know, Mac is very "dot-oriented", so you would need to make/get aspecial >driver for it. And it would also reserve the serial port, so no modem... >This is because ImageWriter prints everything as a bit-image and mac does not >have an actual centronics-port, both printer and modem ports are serials. >So you can print pictures quite easily, but text does need a very special >driver. > > Jartsu > > *** Jari Lehto, jartsu@otax.hut.fi, s37837k@saha.hut.fi *** It's true that the Mac is very "dot oriented" but the ImageWriter and ImageWriter II do indeed have built in character sets, and can be used to print ASCII text as well as graphics. I know quite a few people who used Imagewriters on their Apple II's, for example. The part about interfacing is true, though. The Imagewriter is a serial printer, so you would need to switch between printing and modeming.