root@gmbh.UUCP (Admin) (08/31/89)
There are several questions correlated to usage of the HP Deskjet Printer (300 dpi ink-jet) with the Grappler LQ interface on a mac SE (System 6.03 Finder 5.0): 1st Question: With the Grappler comes the driver Imagewriter LQ version 1.0. With the mac comes version 2.0. What is the difference? 2nd Question: Imagewriter LQ version 1.0 works fine with the Grappler if booted and if selected by the chooser DA. Version 2.0 only works if selected by the chooser. In this case print dialogs show version 2.0, but only garbage comes out of the printer. What's the reason? 3rd Question: Are there printer drivers for the Deskjet other than Grappler? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions and answers to one (or all) of the above questions, especially on the topic of differences between the two versions. Thanks in advance, Rudolf Raith MAD Intelligent Systems GmbH Kronstadterstrasse 9 8000 Muenchen Federal Republic of Germany
Michael.Connick@f412.n520.z7.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Connick) (09/04/89)
>Are there printer drivers for the Deskjet other than Grappler? Yes, JetLink Express and MacPrint are two excellent drivers for the DeskJet. We use MacPrint with our DeskJet and are very happy with it. BTW, both of these drivers are complete, stand-alone, Chooser selectable drivers. >Rudolf Raith >MAD Intelligent Systems GmbH >Kronstadterstrasse 9 >8000 Muenchen >Federal Republic of Germany Michael Connick (Internet mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM) -- Michael Connick via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!7!520!412!Michael.Connick INET: Michael.Connick@f412.n520.z7.FIDONET.ORG
hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) (09/08/89)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: mac, HP Deskjet, Imagewriter LQ Summary: Expires: References: <21417.25058B31@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: Reply-To: hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Keywords: In article <21417.25058B31@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Michael.Connick@f412.n520.z7.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Connick) writes: >>Are there printer drivers for the Deskjet other than Grappler? > >Yes, JetLink Express and MacPrint are two excellent drivers for the >DeskJet. We use MacPrint with our DeskJet and are very happy with it. > >BTW, both of these drivers are complete, stand-alone, Chooser selectable >drivers. > >>Rudolf Raith >>MAD Intelligent Systems GmbH >>Kronstadterstrasse 9 >>8000 Muenchen >>Federal Republic of Germany > >Michael Connick (Internet mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM) > > >-- >Michael Connick via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH >UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!7!520!412!Michael.Connick >INET: Michael.Connick@f412.n520.z7.FIDONET.ORG Do any of those drivers allow output to be directed to a disk file instead of to the serial port? If not then are there any HP laserjet drivers available for the Mac doing just that? Thanks, Yngvi Hardarson hardy@rhi.hi.is *Internet Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: mac, HP Deskjet, Imagewriter LQ Summary: Expires: References: <21417.25058B31@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: Reply-To: hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Keywords: In article <21417.25058B31@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Michael.Connick@f412.n520.z7.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Connick) writes: >>Are there printer drivers for the Deskjet other than Grappler? > >Yes, JetLink Express and MacPrint are two excellent drivers for the >DeskJet. We use MacPrint with our DeskJet and are very happy with it. > >BTW, both of these drivers are complete, stand-alone, Chooser selectable >drivers. > >>Rudolf Raith >>MAD Intelligent Systems GmbH >>Kronstadterstrasse 9 >>8000 Muenchen >>Federal Republic of Germany > >Michael Connick (Internet mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM) Do any of those drivers allow output to be directed to a disk file instead of to the serial port? If not then are there any HP laserjet drivers available for the Mac doing just that? Thanks, Yngvi Hardarson hardy@rhi.hi.is Internet
parent@apple.com (Sean Parent) (09/12/89)
In article <508@gmbh.UUCP> root@gmbh.UUCP (Admin) writes: > There are several questions correlated to usage of the HP Deskjet > Printer (300 dpi ink-jet) with the Grappler LQ interface on a mac > SE (System 6.03 Finder 5.0): > > 1st Question: > With the Grappler comes the driver Imagewriter LQ version 1.0. > With the mac comes version 2.0. What is the difference? > > 2nd Question: > Imagewriter LQ version 1.0 works fine with the Grappler if booted > and if selected by the chooser DA. Version 2.0 only works if selected > by the chooser. In this case print dialogs show version 2.0, but > only garbage comes out of the printer. What's the reason? You have an old version of the Grappler LQ (version 1.0). Please contact Orange Micro at (714) 779-2772 about an upgrade. I believe the latest version is 1.7. It works with the new ImageWriter LQ driver 2.0 (actualy the driver is a year old now). It is faster and has a much improved draft mode. Also the 2.0 driver fixes the way the text is layed out for much improved output. Sean Parent
mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick) (09/15/89)
In article <1116@krafla.rhi.hi.is> hardy@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Hardarson) writes: > >Do any of those drivers allow output to be directed to a disk file instead >of to the serial port? If not then are there any HP laserjet drivers >available for the Mac doing just that? > >Thanks, >Yngvi Hardarson The public domain DeskJet driver HPDJ (which can work with the LaserJet as well) can output spool files to disk. These in turn can be printed out with the companion BatchPrint program. Both of these were posted to comp.sys.mac.binaries.