steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (01/05/89)
I have a Panasonic 1092i printer with which I'm quite happy. (I'm currently using it with my Kaypro 2 at home.) I'm considering getting a Mac to use at home. Does anyone know whether I can just hook up a Grappler in the middle and use my Panasonic? I note that Grapplers are sold in ads alongside similar Panasonic models. The general question is: with which printers is the Grappler (or any competitors if they exist) compatible? Thanks for any response. Steve Goldfield
flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) (01/05/89)
>The general question is: with which printers >is the Grappler (or any competitors if they exist) compatible? Contact the company and ask them. When I did, they were pretty frank about which printers worked well and where there were problems (of those printers they've tested). Also they can provide optimal dip switch settings.
aschool@unet.UUCP (Adam Schoolsky) (01/07/89)
In article <19318@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> flowers@cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) writes: >>The general question is: with which printers >>is the Grappler (or any competitors if they exist) compatible? > >Contact the company and ask them. When I did, they were pretty frank >about which printers worked well and where there were problems (of >those printers they've tested). Also they can provide optimal dip >switch settings. I used a Grappler with a Panasonic KXP-1092i with excellent results. The grappler folks (Orange Micro) claim their device is *comaptible* with all epson *FX* or *MX* compatible printers.
flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) (01/11/89)
In article <199@unet.UUCP> aschool@unet.PacBell.COM (Adam Schoolsky) writes: >In article <19318@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> flowers@cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) writes: >>>With which printer is the Grappler compatible? >>Contact the company and ask them. When I did, they were pretty frank ... >The grappler folks (Orange Micro) claim their device is *comaptible* with all >epson *FX* or *MX* compatible printers. There are different degrees of compatibility. I've used it with two supposedly epson FX compatible printers, and each had idiosyncracies that required different dip switch settings on the Grapper. It saved me time to just get the optimal settings from Orange Micro itself. Not all problems can be dealt with however.